mirror method should with with file location
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Rolf Leggewie |
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/
deb mirror:
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://
100 /var/lib/
1.0.1ubuntu2.5 0
500 http://
1.0.1ubuntu2 0
500 http://
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.