Re: apt 0.6 downloads from second archive?
Received Fri 22 Jul 2005 11:58pm +1000 from Goswin von Brederlow:
> Graham Williams <Graham.Williams@togaware.com> writes:
>
> > Received Fri 22 Jul 2005 9:27am +1000 from Matthew Palmer:
> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 07:12:29AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> >> > Since installing apt 0.6 on an otherwise up-to-date unstable (except
> >> > for anything depending on the aspell libraries...) packages on my
> >> > local archive are being overlooked even though this archive is listed
> >> > before others in my apt/sources.list. Downgrading to apt 0.5 and
> >> > things work again as expected (i.e., most is downloaded from
> >> > localhost).
> >>
> >> Huge (uninformed) guess, but apt may be preferring packages from
> >> repositories it can verify the contents of. Besides, if the versions are
> >> the same, then the contents should be the the same too, and (modulo
> >> bandwidth charges) which one you get from shouldn't matter. BTW, the new
> >> (twisted-based) apt-proxy rocks hard, if it's your traffic allowances you're
> >> worried about (and who wouldn't be in Australia, given what we get charged).
> >>
> >> - Matt
> >
> > Thanks for the guess Matt. I've added a Releases.gpg and it did not
> > make any difference. Traffic's not the issue - I download all new
> > upgrades early each morning automatically and they go into this local
> > archive so that when I get up, a distupgrade used to flash by - not now
> > since it has to grab them all again :-(
> >
> > I'll have a look at apt-proxy.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Graham
>
> What does your sources.list look like?
>
> It seems like file:// and copy:// urls behave differently with the new
> secure apt. E.g. they don't get md5sum checked.
>
> Try looping them through ftp or http.
>
> MfG
> Goswin
It is all http!
deb http://localhost/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian unstable main contrib
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
Regards,
Graham
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