Paul Wise at "Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:04:48 +0800" wrote: PW> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
>> Another strange thing about apt-spy is that it picks a subset of mirrors >> without an apparent rule. It claims it uses >> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors.txt yet it ignores most (but >> not all!) of non-country-primary ones. PW> Thats a bug in the parsing (#457049). OK, this is solved in version 3.2.1 that is waiting for upload on my site [1]. I asked many times on mentors to upload this version. I admit I'm not the most active developer on Earth but if you like to try this version of apt-spy feel free to download it from [1] or from the git repository [2]. >> Right, with bottlenecks usually being at the last mile, all good mirrors >> will have nearly the same speed. Picking any from the general area should >> be fine. PW> Not nessecarily, it really depends. For example in Australia local PW> mirrors are much faster than US mirrors. I think that bandwith tests are more accurate, the nearest mirror is not necessary the best. Bye Stefano [1] http://www.linux.it/~sc/debian/apt-spy/ [2] git://github.com/scanepa/apt-spy.git -- Stefano Canepa aka sc: s...@linux.it - http://www.stefanocanepa.it Three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris. Le tre grandi virtù di un programmatore: pigrizia, impazienza e arroganza. (Larry Wall) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739lzjq37....@lepre.stefanocanepa.home
