On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, John Galt wrote:

> When using apt with a [relatively] large sources.list and a command like
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, a single source failure fails the whole
> cascade.  There should be a "non-fatal" flag for sources.list signifying
> that the particular source isn't necessary to the continued health of the
> job.  This problem gets exacerbated by automated jobs such as cron-apt and
> flaky sources.

If you look closely you should see it only fails to download the sources
that are actually failing, all others are still downloaded and processed
as normal.

Jason

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