little? apt suggestion

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

  Sarel>  Hi all How about an apt-get command that retrieves a list of
  Sarel> mirrors and pings them all to get an idea of the speed and then adds
  Sarel> a line to sources.list for the quickest site. 

This almost exists.  

Based on an initial shell script by Chris Lameter, I wrote a perl tool
debian-mirrors(1) [ part of the mirror package ]. And there is Avery's
netselect.

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