Bug#548590: apt: need a way to specify outgoing IP addresses

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Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1
Severity: wishlist


Hello,

I need a way to specify IP addresses for outgoing apt requests, to
chose the appropriate IP number on multihomed machines. So far, apt
appears to take the numerically largest address present on the machine,
which is unsuitable in my case, and prevents some of my machines from
updating themselves correctly.

Looking through the documentation, bug reports, and taking a cursory
glance at the source code, I could not find anything suitable.


Kind regards,
--Toni++


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (450, 'testing'), (250, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring       2009.01.31  GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                        2.7-18      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.2-1.1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc               <none>             (no description available)
ii  aptitude              0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager
ii  bzip2                 1.0.5-1            high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev              1.14.25            Debian package development tools
ii  lzma                  4.43-14            Compression method of 7z format in
ii  python-apt            0.7.7.1+nmu1       Python interface to libapt-pkg

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