Why don't you let yum download a list with mirrors and choose the closest or fastest mirror :)

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:37:18PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:20:45AM +0100, Kristof vansant wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be interresting to let yum download a mirror list from the
> > fedora site and then connect to a nearby mirror.
> 
> Agreed. One of the problems however is to get permission from the relevant
> mirrors for this and wire in the limits they wish to impose on such use.

  the problem is also:
    1/ to set up the framework to aggregate the data informations, maintain
       them over time and expose them in a convenient way to the tools
       (yum and up2date)
    2/ to select the "nearby" mirror, a mirror which is 2 miles away
       from your machine may not be the best to fetch from. The problem
       of "proximity" over IP and analysis of the resource bandwidth 
       are not provided as services, you need to built this estimate.

  Having a working solution ain't rocket science, at least a static analysis
tool would be very useful. For 1/ we can probably extend the initial effort
on RPM metadata to include mirroring informations, but building a generic
solution takes time.

Daniel

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