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 $PR

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 > > > > (

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): > > > > > > > > > Now if i do

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): > > > > > Now if i do 'dselect update'

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): > Now if i do 'dselect update' or 'apt-get update' most > of the time i see two 'Packages' files bei

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 http://ftp.freenet.de/pub