Where is the advantage? It's easy enough to host a file these days and without a net connection the whole update business isn't going to work. Not sure if this would be a lot of work to implement. But before anybody goes ahead and thinks about doing that let's make sure this is worth the effort. Please make your case.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1412758 Title: mirror method should with with file location Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: It'd be really great if the mirror method could be configured to use a local file for the mirror list. eg in /etc/apt/source.list.d/mysoftware.list deb mirror://file://apt/mirrors/mysoftware.txt trusty main Instead of pulling the file via http (as per current behaviour) and choosing a mirror from that list, apt should read the local file and choose from the list in the same way. Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 apt: Installed: 1.0.1ubuntu2.6 Candidate: 1.0.1ubuntu2.6 Version table: *** 1.0.1ubuntu2.6 0 500 http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.0.1ubuntu2.5 0 500 http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages 1.0.1ubuntu2 0 500 http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1412758/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp