Up2date replacement
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Nov 28 06:47:00 UTC 2005
seth vidal wrote:
>
>
> what we had considered was using the fastest mirror plugin to sort the
> list of mirrors. Then store that sorted list in the repo cache
> directory. Then redownload the list and re-sort/store it every 8 hours
> or so, same as how we're storing the repomd.xml data, now.
I for one am not sure that "fastest mirror" is the one I want to use.
There are financial benefits to many people in Australia using their
local cache peering arrangements.
When it comes to dialup, I can't imagine I'd notice a difference between
a site on Westnet (my IAP) or one in Helsinki.
We need to be given the chance to choose a mirror, and to know where
that mirror is: the name www.au.fedoracore.org doesn't tell me whether
it's in QLD, WA, or even off-shore in TAS.
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Cheers
John
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