Re: Poolng/redundancy in apt's sources.list?

2002-10-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Barney Wrightson said: > Joe Emenaker wrote: > > >What I'd *love* is if there was some way to group a bunch of "deb ..." > >entries in sources.list together in a group that indicated "These are > >all redundant. If just ONE of these can be reached, that's good enoug

Re: Poolng/redundancy in apt's sources.list?

2002-10-28 Thread Barney Wrightson
Joe Emenaker wrote: What I'd *love* is if there was some way to group a bunch of "deb ..." entries in sources.list together in a group that indicated "These are all redundant. If just ONE of these can be reached, that's good enough". Does apt support this kind of thing yet? - Joe I don't t

Poolng/redundancy in apt's sources.list?

2002-10-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay, I'm stumped.   I used to go directly to ftp.debian.org for my packages. However, I started feeling guilty about hammering the central servers, so I started using mirrors.   The problem with that was that many of the mirrors would either be a few days out-of-sync with the central servers