Re: little? apt suggestion
MoiN
Do not invent the wheel again. The main part of your idea has allready
been packaged for debian:
Package: netselect
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>
Description: Choose the fastest server automatically.
This is netselect, an ultrafast intelligent parallelizing binary-search
implementation of "ping." You give it a (possibly very long) list of
servers, and it chooses the fastest/closest one automatically. It's good
for finding the fastest ftp.debian.org mirror, the least laggy IRC server,
or the best Squid neighbour.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Will Lowe wrote:
> > How about an apt-get command that retrieves a list of mirrors and pings them
> > all to get an idea of the speed and then adds a line to sources.list for
> > the quickest site. Maybe a nice curses ui to choose if you want security.debian,
> > latest gnome packages, netgod's x updates etc. as well.
> I'd suggest that this should be a standalone app. It sounds like it'd be
> usefull for other applications.
[...]
> Write your mirror-pinging utility first. Get it working, get people to
> use it. Once it works well, apply for maintainership. :)
Ingo
P.S.: I am not a maintainer and just stepped into this list a few days
before, so don't flame me if this is not the right place to discuss
such matters.
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