Re: apt and multiple connections
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:14:33PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Or the user could just pick a good mirror to start with - we do have 140
> of them.
This brings up a good point for the Woody installer--it would be
extremely helpful if for an FTP installation the installer would query
a central site (e.g. ftp.debian.org) similar to CPAN's "MIRRORED_BY"
file and obtain a list of current mirrors from which the software can
be downloaded. The installer could then sort by country and provide a
list of mirrors sorted by round-trip time (maybe even use a bit of
bing(8)'s code to find the remote site with the best bandwidth).
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