tool used to download packages?

[Nathan Eckenrode]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 10:46:51 am Andy Harrison wrote:
Just a quick question from a top poster. 

With all the extra repos added have you pinned your preferences? The 
installation tool may be getting hung up because it is trying to install the 
same package with equal versioning from two different repos.

> 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