David Dooling wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:32:29PM -0600, Robert Citek wrote: >> Is there any advantage/disadvantage to having repository components >> in one line or several lines in a sources.list file? > > When downloading files, apt parallelizes by opening one conncetion > per server. If it considers each line in sources.list a different > server, apt would connect four times to archive.ubuntu.com. This may > be considerd abuse by the folks at Ubuntu (although they probably > would not even notice). If apt does some sort of string comparison > to determine unique hosts, then there should no difference.
According to the man page, apt is doing some collapsing: <quote> APT will sort the URI list after it has generated a complete set internally, and will collapse multiple references to the same Internet host, for instance, into a single connection, so that it does not inefficiently establish an FTP connection, close it, do something else, and then re-establish a connection to that same host. </quote> But then man pages are like comments in code: occasionally out of sync with reality. Which is why I was wondering if anyone knew of any gotchas to using multiple lines. Regards, - Robert _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
