Re: Stop apt-get downloading same Packages.gz from different mirrors
> * Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>
> [010810 16:43]:
> > > for up-to-date and for bandwith reasons i have
> > > multiple debian mirrors in my sources.list, a close
> > > one (which i hope is faster) and the official master
> > > (which i believe is updated first):
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Now if i do 'dselect update' or 'apt-get update' most
> > > of the time i see two 'Packages' files being
> > > downloaded, which, if they are what i find in
> > > /var/lib/apt/lists, are equal. Is there any possibility
> > > or plan to stop this double download? (As you can
> > > see i'm running woody, but i wouldn't mind installing
> > > some - not too many! - packages from sid).
> >
> > I think it has to download the packages file from both
> > sites in order to compare and see which has the newer
> > packages available. Doesn't that make sense ?? If it
> > gets the list from your close mirror and doesn't check
> > the official site, you may always be a package-revision
> > behind...
> >
>
> Wouldn't a checksum be enough?
Doesn't a checksum just tell you it's *valid* or official
package ?? I don't think it knows nor cares which is newer.
Hall
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