tool used to download packages?

[Andy Harrison]

On 2/7/07, Joe Hart <j.hart at orange.nl> wrote:
> I believe you.  I just think it might help.  If you look at your
> /etc/apt/sources.list file (or look at the repos with adept or synaptic)
> you should see which sites it's using.  For example, I use:

I've stuffed a bunch of repositories in there though.  Have a look.
See anything obvious I can do to improve it?

(8)[10:37am] [aharrison at aharrison:~] > grep '^[^#]'
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted universe
multiverse
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ edgy free non-free
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main
restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted
universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main
restricted universe multiverse
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy free
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy non-free
deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy free
deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy non-free

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu edgy-commercial main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe
deb  http://repository.debuntu.org/ edgy multiverse
deb-src http://repository.debuntu.org/ edgy multiverse
deb http://people.debian.org/~mones/claws-mail/i386/ ./
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~mones/claws-mail/i386/ ./
deb http://www.claws-mail.org/ubuntu/edgy/ ./
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-backports main restricted
universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-updates main restricted
universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted
universe multiverse
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main
deb http://nvidia.limitless.lupine.me.uk/ubuntu edgy stable
deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ edgy main
deb http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org edgy beryl-svn
deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-356 edgy main
deb ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/kde/stable/3.5.6/kubuntu edgy main
deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.6/kubuntu
edgy main
deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/kde/stable/3.5.6/kubuntu
edgy main
deb http://debian.websterwood.com/ edgy main
deb-src http://debian.websterwood.com/ edgy main



> Personally, I don't know what else to tell you.  Other than re-compiling
> dpkg to use a different method, and I don't really recommend doing that
> because if you break dpkg, then you'll never be able to update or
> install things the Debian way.

Lots of room for breakage there, definitely.  But after reading that
lump of comment from the source code, I'm wondering if I'll have a
choice.  Sounds like they're experimenting with features to make it
slightly faster, but at the cost of stability.  I'd rather go back to
a method that works reliably.

-- 
Andy Harrison