Your message dated Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:31:47 +0100
with message-id <20110214063147.gi1...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>
and subject line Now pointless as we have cdn.debian.net support
has caused the Debian Bug report #386880,
regarding RFC: countrychooser and IP location
to be marked as done.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:26:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > If we're going to try to do smart detection of a preferred mirror, it seems
> > to me that geopolitical boundaries are not the most significant factor.
> > Intervening network topography, available bandwidth, and (in some cases,
> >
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 03:18:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Robert Millan wrote:
> > > +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - |
> > > head -c 2`
>
> > This is a third-party point of failure. Altough
On 10/09/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Robert Millan wrote:
> +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head -c
2`
This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code does
gracefully degrade if it fails. Would Debian be able to run this service
itsel
Joey Hess wrote:
> Another reason is that physical country and network-connected country
> arn't necessarily the same; I might do a remote install in another
> country, and tell it I'm in the US, since I want all the US defaults --
> but I'd still prefer to use the iplocated country for mirror then
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head
> > -c 2`
> This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code does
> gracefully degrade if it fails. Would Debian be able to run
Package: choose-mirror
Severity: wishlist
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 09:55:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:21, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Does Joey's proposal to make it a choose-mirror-only check address your
> > concerns?
>
> Not really. I'd still classify it as post-Et
On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:21, Robert Millan wrote:
> Does Joey's proposal to make it a choose-mirror-only check address your
> concerns?
Not really. I'd still classify it as post-Etch at this point.
Mostly because we don't really have sufficient time to get feedback about
reliability, qualit
Robert Millan wrote:
> Ok. So choose-mirror is the place to do it?
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking..
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 06:17:03PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>
> Feel free to submit a wishlist bugreport with the patch so it can be
> revisited after the release of Etch.
In that case I'd rather wait for the patch. I don't want to write it twice ;)
Does Joey's proposal to make it a choose-mirr
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 05:51:46PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I think it'd be nice if IP location would be used to check user input from
> > country chooser. The main advantage is that "auto" installs get the right
> > mirror
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head
> > -c 2`
>
> This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code does
> gracefully degrade if it fails. Would Debian be able to r
Robert Millan wrote:
> +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head -c
> 2`
This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code does
gracefully degrade if it fails. Would Debian be able to run this service
itself if we decided to use this? Or would that be a ba
On Sunday 10 September 2006 17:51, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I think it'd be nice if IP location would be used to check user input
> > from country chooser. The main advantage is that "auto" installs get
> > the right mirror selected.
> >
> > My prop
Quoting Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hi!
>
> I think it'd be nice if IP location would be used to check user input from
> country chooser. The main advantage is that "auto" installs get the right
> mirror selected.
>
> My proposal is to get the iplocation data as soon as we have netwo
Hi!
I think it'd be nice if IP location would be used to check user input from
country chooser. The main advantage is that "auto" installs get the right
mirror selected.
My proposal is to get the iplocation data as soon as we have network, then
check it against user input and if different ask t
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