Re: Bug#32918: apt: misleading sources.list man page, on "preferred sources"

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, A Mennucc1 wrote:

> the man page says:
> 
>        It is important to list sources in  order  of  preference,
>        with  the  most  preferred  source listed first. Typically	      
>        this will result in sorting by speed from fastest to slow­
>        est (CD-ROM followed by hosts on a local network, followed
>        by distant Internet hosts, for example).
> 
> Now, I would like to do what 22551@bugs.debian.org says
> (at least, this is what I understand from 22551):

Yes this is a feature that has been request but it will not be implemented
through sources.list ordering. The ordering of the source list is to allow
exactly the functionality you quoted from the man page, this to to allow a
local mirror to be preferenced over an remote mirror. With APTv3's source
fail-over this becomes even more important.

I will close this bug as 22551 is already basically identical.

Jason