On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > David Baron: > > > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not want to > > delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors to be tried > > first. > > There is absolutely no reason to keep several official mirrors in your > sources.list. They all contain the same software (that's why they are > called mirrors). On 'apt-get update', apt will download all package > lists from every mirror, but on 'install' it will only use the first > mirror mentioned in your sources.list anyway. > > If your primary mirror is unreliable, pick another one or keep entries > using a different mirror *commented out* in your sources.list and enable > them only when your primary mirror freaks out. Otherwise, you are > abusing bandwidth donated to the Debian project. this seems like another good time to mention apt-spy. very useful. A
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