[ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

[Jonathan Davies]

On 14/05/10 20:47, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Friday 14 May 2010 17:06:35 Anton Piatek wrote:
>> This has been discussed several times on the Debian lists - there are
>> several prototypes or packages that do this already, some even using
>> bittorrent, however most of the consensus is that the packages are
>> often small and the overhead of p2p is too high to get significant
>> gains. Certainly with so many mirrors around you might argue it is too
>> much effort (my ISP, virgin, have a mirror on their network so I get
>> ridiculously fast apt updates for my system)
> 
> If I'm already using "archive.ubuntu.com" while on Virgin, will it use the 
> Virgin mirror?  Or do I need to manually specify it?

You have to specify it manually:

- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+mirror/ubuntu.virginmedia.com-archive

Cheers,
Jonathan