Hi, On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:35:11PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > File: /usr/share/man/man5/sources.list.5.gz > > > > /usr/lib/apt/methods/mirror is not mentioned in the manpage under URI > > SPECIFICATION. > > Yes, there's zero documentation for this feature. It would be nice to see apt 1.6~alpha6 includes beside a rewrite of the method also a manpage for it with apt-transport-mirror (alongside -http and -https). But indeed, the sources.list manpage still doesn't mention it, while it mentions the other new manpages… will add a remark now (and treat this bugreport as a request for that, so close is hopefully immanent). Oh, btw, the new implementation allows a call-style similar to the tor method (which has mirror support, too, now), so to use a local file as your mirror list you can use mirror+file:/path/to/mirrorlist – but yeah, really see the manpage for details on how that file should look. The documentation could surely be improved, if there are ideas/patches… Best regards David Kalnischkies
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