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Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?



On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> wrote:

> There is a "mirror" method in apt since some time that is a bit of a
> combined cdn/README.mirrors approach. Its not much used and probably
> has some rough edges but should be a good starting point.
>
> The idea is that you have a sources.list entry like:
> deb mirrors://mirrors.debian.org/mirror sid main
>
> and the server returns a list of "good" mirrors (based on something
> like geoip) for your location as a simple text list. This is done on
> apt-get update. After that it uses a selected miror of that list to do
> the actual update and for getting the packages. The list is stored
> locally in /var/lib/apt/mirrors so that a re-query is not needed for
> each download request. It supports fallback to the next mirror if
> there are problems and also reporting back issues (via a external
> helper).
>
> One missing feature is that it needs to send along info about the
> release/arch its looking for or the returned list needs to be extended
> to include this info. But otherwise it should be good and working.

Looks like the main thing missing for this to work is an
implementation of the server?

What is the protocol?

Maybe this would be a good gsoc project?

-- 
bye,
pabs

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