@r0lf Agreed that it is easy enough to workaround, so I wouldn't call it an urgent requirement - however, having to stand up a web server to host a file in the environment is an overhead which could be avoided if using a file was an option. When using configuration management tooling like ansible, chef, puppet, etc the placement and changing of a local file is useful and carries very little overhead.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1412758 Title: mirror method should with with file location Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: It'd be really great if the mirror method could be configured to use a local file for the mirror list. eg in /etc/apt/source.list.d/mysoftware.list deb mirror://file://apt/mirrors/mysoftware.txt trusty main Instead of pulling the file via http (as per current behaviour) and choosing a mirror from that list, apt should read the local file and choose from the list in the same way. Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 apt: Installed: 1.0.1ubuntu2.6 Candidate: 1.0.1ubuntu2.6 Version table: *** 1.0.1ubuntu2.6 0 500 http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.0.1ubuntu2.5 0 500 http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages 1.0.1ubuntu2 0 500 http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1412758/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
