Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 15:23, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> +#ifdef USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER
> + /* ugly... this will work as long as the LANG name has two chars. Preffer "us
> "
> + * when "en". */
> + sprintf(nf_state.server.hostname, "http.%s.debian.org", strcmp(lang->locale,
> "en")==0 ? "us" : lang->locale );
> +#endif
I think there are a few problems with this. Firstly, it doesn't seem
that you can extrapolate from "http.us.debian.org" to other countries
(there are no DNS entries for other names of that form, as far as I can
see). Even if you use "ftp.CC.debian.org", not all countries have a
mirror so you would need some way of checking if the server exists or
not. And, finally, lang->locale is a full locale name like
"en_GB.ISO-8859-1", not just a language code -- you might have been
thinking of lang->msgcat, which is just the language name, but even that
would probably give you the wrong results for pt_BR and ja_JP.
If we want to provide suggestions for nearby mirrors, I don't honestly
think there is any reliable way to derive an address from the locale
name. It would almost certainly be better to just add an extra
"lang->mirror" field or something and let people fill in their favourite
mirrors in the language .src files.
p.
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