Stop apt-get downloading same Packages.gz from different mirrors

2001-08-10 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi List, 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): deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free ... deb

Re: Stop apt-get downloading same Packages.gz from different mirrors

2001-08-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
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

Re: Stop apt-get downloading same Packages.gz from different mirrors

2001-08-10 Thread Karsten Heymann
* 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

Re: Stop apt-get downloading same Packages.gz from different mirrors

2001-08-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
* 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

Re: Stop apt-get downloading same Packages.gz from different mirrors

2001-08-10 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010810 17:35]: * 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

Re: Stop apt-get downloading same Packages.gz from different mirrors

2001-08-10 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Karsten Heymann wrote: Is there any possibility or plan to stop this double download? just a thougt: link files in /var/lib/apt/lists together, like ln -s $PRIMARY_Package $SECONDARY_Package. When updating, apt or dselect should download only newest file (by timestamp), which might be