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...
>
> Hall
Wouldn't a checksum be enough?
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Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@gmx.de>
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Forschungsstelle für Ökosystemtechnik Universität Kiel
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