Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Should have a look at that.
> >
> > A wishlist for apt-get. EVERYONE will be using stock
> > stable/unstable/testing groups of packages. So these packages could have
> > a 1st-mirror, 2nd-mirror, etc. Special packages such as systemimage,
> > qmail, etc., would be specified in sources.list as now.
>
> are you saying that certain core packages should come from the master
> archive only and all others from the mirror? You may be able to do
> this in apt.conf somehow. How about just double checking the md5 sums
> from the master archive? regardless, ISTM that the odds of any one
> mirror being compromised are about the same and why the master archive
> wouldn't necessarily be compromised is beyond me. IOW, I don't see the
> advantage to what you propose.
No. The main packages are taken from the mirror but since everyone is using
these packages, one can specified a list of preferred mirrors and they can be
tried until one works. I want unstable from mirror1,if not mirror 2, etc.
Other packages not on the "main" would have their repositories specified
explicitely in sources.list.
>
> IIRC, apt will update from all servers in
> sources.list and pull from them in order of appearance in the file. I
> don't know what happens if the first one fails -- does it move on to
> the next mirror?
>
> A
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