* Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010810 16:43]: > > for up-to-date and for bandwith reasons i have > > multiple debian mirrors in my sources.list, a close > > one (which i hope is faster) and the official master > > (which i believe is updated first): > > <snip> > > > Now if i do 'dselect update' or 'apt-get update' most > > of the time i see two 'Packages' files being > > downloaded, which, if they are what i find in > > /var/lib/apt/lists, are equal. Is there any possibility > > or plan to stop this double download? (As you can > > see i'm running woody, but i wouldn't mind installing > > some - not too many! - packages from sid). > > I think it has to download the packages file from both sites > in order to compare and see which has the newer packages > available. Doesn't that make sense ?? If it gets the list from > your close mirror and doesn't check the official site, you may > always be a package-revision behind... > > Hall
Wouldn't a checksum be enough? -- Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Netzwerkverwaltung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Forschungsstelle für Ökosystemtechnik Universität Kiel