Bug#636871: provide a command-line switch to prefer IPv6 or IPv4
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.15.1
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
It'd be good if apt-get could have -6 and -4 options, just like wget,
and/or appropriate apt.conf entries. Sometimes, network performance over
IPv4 and IPv6 differ significantly, so temporarily preferring one or
another is important to speed the upgrade process up.
Thanks,
--
WBR, Andrew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc6-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.9-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-2 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.6.4-1 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
pn python-apt <none> (no description available)
ii synaptic 0.75 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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