Re: New APT Version
On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 08:27:53PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
>
> > > I would really like to get a list of mirrors in sources.list format ..
> > > [would allow a much smarter seutp script]
> >
> > It should even be possible to have apt ping them all and choose one based
> > on the rtt, ttl, and a hard coded list of preferences.
>
> Disclaimer: I haven't looked at what apt-get actually does internally, and
> I'm using the default configuration of version 0.0.3.
>
> However, I was thinking of this problem a while ago for an unrelated
> project: with a large list of servers, how can you reasonably-well
> prioritize them based on speed/efficiency/nearness etc.
I think this is a very nice analyisis. If you would like to cook up a
program that given a list of hosts assigns a 'score' to each of them I
would then be very motivated to making a colourfull setup gui that used it
:>
But without such a program this is a very low priority :>
> about the braindead resolver library are legendary). In fact, apt-get could
> even run a task like this while it downloads the (relatively small) package
> files from a random server, thereby eliminating the "extra" delay. It might
No, the package files are matched to the servers - this is necessary
because apt-get directly fetches by file name. If the package file does
not exactly match the mirror then that is no good.
Jaosn
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