Re: APT sources idea

2001-11-28 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:32:28PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * "James A. Treacy" > > | The problem with this is the usual problem in figuring out where a site > | is actually located. Additionally, geographic location often has little > | relation to how good a connection that a person has

Re: APT sources idea

2001-11-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "James A. Treacy" | The problem with this is the usual problem in figuring out where a site | is actually located. Additionally, geographic location often has little | relation to how good a connection that a person has to a site. Hmm, is that a problem? from mirror/Mirrors.masterlist: Site:

Re: APT sources idea

2001-11-26 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:03:04PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > I had an idea; It would be very nice with an extension to the available > mirror information where one could create suitable APT lines for > copy-paste to the sources.list file. It could be accessible from a CGI > script, for inst

APT sources idea

2001-11-26 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I had an idea; It would be very nice with an extension to the available mirror information where one could create suitable APT lines for copy-paste to the sources.list file. It could be accessible from a CGI script, for instance, with a simple form: Distribution: (*) stable ( ) testing ( )