Joe (and anyone else interested),
Very nice idea, and I have an idea to make it even nicer: There's
a package called 'netselect' which describes itself thusly:
...netselect determines several facts about all of the hosts given on
the
command line, much faster you would if you manually tried to use ping
and
traceroute. For example, if I type:
netselect -vv ftp.fceia.unr.edu.ar ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be \
ftp.cdrom.com ftp.debian.org ftp.de.debian.org
It tells me this:
ftp.fceia.unr.edu.ar 2792 ms 23 hops 100% ok ( 1/ 1)
[ 9213]
ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
ftp.cdrom.com 94 ms 8 hops 100% ok (10/10)
[ 169]
ftp.debian.org 46 ms 15 hops 100% ok (10/10)
[ 115]
ftp.de.debian.org 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok ...
I haven't had time to try it yet, but it sounds too good to ignore
if it works. So maybe we/you could wrap something around apt/dselect,
netselect, and the mirrors list on the debian web site to make it
really smart.
Just a thought, wish I had time to try it myself right now...
Joe Emenaker wrote:
>
> It sure would be great (and it sure would take some load off of
> ftp.debian.org) if dselect could ftp a list of mirrors and then let us
> select one.
>
> I like using the mirrors because they're faster and also because I feel good
> knowing I'm helping to lighten the load on "Mother" (ftp.debian.org).
> However, it's kind of a pain to go fetch the mirrors list by hand and then
> enter the info by hand. Also, it looks like some mirrors only carry
> "stable", while others carry the full compliment of distributions.
>
> It would be nice if, when I select that my access method is ftp, I could
> optionally fetch a fresh copy of the mirrors file and then (whether I
> fetched a new copy or not) I would be presented with a list of mirrors, how
> fast they are, and what distributions they mirror. This isn't all that
> different from how the CDDB database system works... and I think that it
> really works slick.
>
> I'd be willing to code this... provided whoever maintains dselect would be
> open to the idea of including it.
>
> - Joe
>
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