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Okay, I'm stumped.
I used to go directly to ftp.debian.org for my packages. However, I
started feeling guilty about hammering the central servers, so I started using
mirrors.
The problem with that was that many of the mirrors
would either be a few days out-of-sync with the central servers or some would be
down. In general, there'd just be some problem that requred me altering my
sources.list file every couple of weeks.
Then, I started putting multiple mirrors in my
sources.list. This makes it more reliable when trying to install packages.
However, when I try to Update the database through dselect, I almost always get
some sites that can't be reached... causing "apt-get update" to return an error
code, which causes dselect to decide to not rebuild the "available"
file.
It's kind of a catch-22. The more entries in
sources.list, the more distributed the load can be and the more chances I have
of being able to get the package.... but it also increases the chance that the
update operation will fail altogether if there's one site that can't be
reached.
What I'd *love* is if there was some way to group a
bunch of "deb ..." entries in sources.list together in a group that indicated
"These are all redundant. If just ONE of these can be reached, that's good
enough".
Does apt support this kind of thing
yet?
- Joe
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