On Sb, 13 oct 12, 16:55:17, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > If you don't fall for such placebo effects you are unfortunately out of luck > as "host" is the default, but you can use a service like http.debian.net > (which only works so well because "host" is the default …) to get a > real benefit - assuming that you really have more bandwidth available than > one mirror is able to provide you without being unfair/"anti-social" > to all the other users using the same mirror, which is how apt-fast works. I have yet to find a reliable mirror that is able to saturate my bandwidth :( I'll try http.debian.net > If you wonder why APT is getting all packages from one source (the first one > mentioned in the sources.list) even if it could choose between two or more > sources in your sources.list: It is assumed your sources.list is ordered from > most to least desired source: e.g. CD-ROM, local mirror, "internet" mirror. > Getting a package from the internet if it could be acquired through CD-ROM > would be a waste of resources (be it time, money, traffic, $yourmetric or a > wild mixture of all of them). Same for "local" vs. "internet" mirror. This is documented in sources.list(5) > So the mentioned setting effects situations in which package A and B are > available from different sources - these are acquired in parallel if possible. Which does not bring significant improvements in most cases. > ¹ note that Wouter hasn't promised that. It was just pointed out that the > desired behavior is actually already implemented (and I am just making it > clear that this is the default value). Would be nice to mention this also in the manpage ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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