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On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 19:59, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > >But: even after that is done, I think we should reexamine the sorting > >concept, and perhaps sort by the sources.redhat.com order (for us->site > >speed), or perhaps user mirrors then official, etc. > > > > > I guess the best would be to sort by "ping time" (smalest to bigger) to > help reduce unnecessary trans-oceanic downloads. Which means pinging all the sites, and storing the results. We use the official mirror list today, so we can't do this *today*. Also there are other, more policy issues - time to ping all the sites, policy of the sites (do they allow ping?). > But of course it would need to check them each time... or may it be > cached in the local setup.ini? Not setup.ini. mirror.lst / last-mirror > Also: setup.bz2 couln't be checked for size/date and not be downloaded > again each time? Just a MINOR issue of course. We do this already via the networking logic when using the MSIE network connection type, or manual HTTP with a proxy server... (use HEAD to get this). Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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