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[Jesse Pretorius <jesse.pretorius@xxxxxxxxx>]

@r0lf Agreed that it is easy enough to workaround, so I wouldn't call it
an urgent requirement - however, having to stand up a web server to host
a file in the environment is an overhead which could be avoided if using
a file was an option. When using configuration management tooling like
ansible, chef, puppet, etc the placement and changing of a local file is
useful and carries very little overhead.

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Title:
  mirror method should with with file location

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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/source.list.d/mysoftware.list
  deb mirror://file://apt/mirrors/mysoftware.txt trusty main

  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://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1.0.1ubuntu2.5 0
          500 http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
       1.0.1ubuntu2 0
          500 http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

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