As noted, speed is more important than proximity. Luckily, somebody has already written a script (Perl) to determine fastest Cygwin mirror: https://sourceforge.net/p/cygwinmirrortest
Perhaps this could become part of the base install? On 28 August 2015 at 22:31, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Aug 28, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Jack <ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> On 2015.08.28 14:23, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Greetings, Roger Pack! >>> > It would be awesome if the top option for servers were "auto select >>> > closest" or something like that. >> >> I wouldn't make it part of setup.exe, but a separate tool > > setup.exe must remain monolithic, by its nature. > >> like Arch Linux's mirrorselect. > > Yum has a plugin to do this, too, enabled by default in current RHEL type > OSes: > > https://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/FastestMirror > > I expect the same is true of apt, but I can’t be bothered to chase down a > reference. > > “Nearest” is the wrong term, since as Andrey points out, geographic proximity > is not the best gauge of mirror speed. Instead, these features generally > work out which mirrors are faster by more pragmatic means. > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Philip Daniels. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
