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Subject: apt: multiple sources for one file always fetches the first one found
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Sender: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 09:46:03 +0100
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.16
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
My sources.list is like this:
deb ftp://ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/mirror.debian potato main contrib
non-free
deb ftp://basis.globe.de/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/mirror/ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian potato
main contrib non-free
All three mirrors are available, but the first two are currently de-synced.
So I added ftp.uni-stuttgart.de which has a current archive but is much
slower than the first two.
When I use apt-get to install new software, apt pulls the package from ftp.
rz.uni-karlsruhe.de even if ftp.uni-stuttgart.de does have a newer package.
I'd like to have apt notice that and ask me which version of the file it
should install.
That way, one could have maximum performance for packages available on a
"near" server while only resorting to a server that is more far away when
that server has a later version.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux leona 2.2.13 #1 Sat Nov 20 12:44:19 EST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-5 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:11:09 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> All three mirrors are available, but the first two are currently de-synced.
> So I added ftp.uni-stuttgart.de which has a current archive but is much
> slower than the first two.
Sounds like it is desync'd too.
> When I use apt-get to install new software, apt pulls the package from ftp.
> rz.uni-karlsruhe.de even if ftp.uni-stuttgart.de does have a newer package.
> I'd like to have apt notice that and ask me which version of the file it
> should install.
Nope, it always pulls the newer package, the problem must be that
stuttgart has an inconstent package file or you are wrong about what is
newer.
You can use 'apt-cache showpkg foo' to see versions and site availablility
for each package.
> That way, one could have maximum performance for packages available on a
> "near" server while only resorting to a server that is more far away when
> that server has a later version.
This is exactly how it works now.
Jason
