[ANN] stablemirror - a yum plugin for stable, up-to-date mirrors

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jun 13 16:48:56 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:39 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:

> 
> >Another kind of sorting rules can be the speed of the mirror.
> 
> There is already a plugin (fastestmirror) that attempts to do that, based
> on how quickly it can establish a connection.  I think that is the wrong
> problem, as fast, incorrect mirrors are no better than slow, incorrect
> mirrors.
> 
> 
> >I don't know Python, so I can't help you but I will read source.

If someone is working on 'which mirror' solutions, is there
some way to make all installations sharing a proxy server
download from the same site so the cache does what it is
intended to do automatically? 

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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