Robert Millan wrote on 20/08/2005 11:13: > Please, could you allow for Packages file to specify that a package should be > downloaded from a specific host, not necessarily the one we got Packages.gz > from? > > The "Filename:" tag could be used for that. For example: > > Filename: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/3/3dchess/3dchess_0.8.1-11_i386.deb What would that be useful for? You can't guarantee that whoever uses your repository also has access to the file at some other repository. And if he has, why shouldn't he use that repository directly? Also, you might run into problems when the remote repository gets moved (so the old URL to the repository doesn't work anymore or updated (so that the referenced file gets removed). All in all, my opinion is that this would cause a lot more trouble than it could possibly save, so I don't think this should be implemented. However, I'm no maintainer of apt (nor a DD), so I don't really have any power regarding this, but I felt I should add my view anyhow. cu, sven
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