Re: Size of an i386 mirror (unstable and testing)

[Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org>]

* Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> [2003-02-12 02:22]:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:11:55PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
>
> >   what is the algorithm used in <dselect> out of a list of
> >   different servers as specified in </etc/apt/sources.list> ?
>
> I think it is the mirror closest to the start of sources.list with
> the desired version.  If there is a problem downloading the file,
> apt tries downloading the package with the next mirror with the
> desired version.
>

this seems to be the case.

Thanks!

wbr,
Lukas
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