Re: where to sync from?
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 16:31 +0200, Subredu Manuel wrote:
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> Ricardo Yanez wrote:
> >> One thing you will get by being an official mirror is to be included in
> >> the mirror-chooser selection in the installer, that might help split
> >> traffic between different mirrors too, despite not all of them being
> >> ftp.*.d.o.
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> > Exactly my point. In the installer you're presented with a mile-long
> > list of mirrors, with names that most of the time make no sense, then
> > quiet naturally you choose the ftp.*.debian.org for your country,
> > leaving the rest of mirror useless, although, I presume, most of them
> > are quite legit and could do the job equally well. That's not really
> > splitting the traffic.
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> > Ricardo Yanez
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> Actually, there is a solution :) I'm involved in a project called
> metalink (some of you may heard about it) which is targeted to file
> downloads.
> The purpose of metalink is to allow users to download a file from
> multiple locations (eventually using multiple threads). Reading this
> thread, I'm thinking that metalink can be used to implement simultaneous
> downloads from multiple mirrors at the same time.
> This may involve:
> *) modifying wget to implement metalink support
> *) create metalink files for all debian packages
>
> The advantages of this approach is that:
> *) all mirrors from a geographical location can be used at the same time
> *) user may/can select which mirrors within a specific region
> (countries) to use
> *) automatic checks for the downloaded files
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> More information about metalink, can be found on
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink (for some reason, I don't know why
> the primary website [www.metalinker.org] is not working).
>
> PS: my metalink repository
> (http://download.packages.ro/metalink/testing/debian/) already has some
> metalinks for debian isos.
Nobody has replied to this suggestion. Actually, I would be interested
to know what people from Debian think. Perhaps they have a solution like
this in mind?
Ricardo Yanez
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