Hi all,
Some of you may have seen the announcement about the Debian http
redirector, which is a special redirector for apt repositories that was
developed to suite the needs of Debian mirroring where there are many
mirrors of varying updatedness, location and quality.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00003.html
http://httpredir.debian.org/
Raphael, have you considered packaging the http-redirector? There are a
number of Debian derivatives (below) who have multiple mirrors of their
apt repo and might consider using it if it were easier to install/setup.
https://github.com/rgeissert/http-redirector.git
I found the Finnix one most interesting, they have a custom system that
checks mirror status, has some sort of geoip support.
Ryan, could you share information about the technology behind this?
http://mirrors.finnix.org/
I note that surprisingly Kali seems to use mirrorbrain.
Mati, has Kali packaged mirrorbrain or are you using a manual setup?
Have you found any problems with using it for serving apt repositories?
http://http.kali.org/README.mirrorlist
Some of the URLs below are broken, hopefully folks will review their
information and fix the issues.
$ w3m -dump https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusFull | grep 'mirrors file' | sort | uniq -c
1 # Download binaries method: Check mirrors file link above.
54 • mirrors file:
1 • mirrors file: http://http.kali.org/README.mirrorlist
1 • mirrors file: http://knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html
1 • mirrors file: http://mirrors.finnix.org/
1 • mirrors file: http://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt
1 • mirrors file: http://progress-linux.org/project/mirrors/
1 • mirrors file: http://repository.solydxk.com/mirrors.list
1 • mirrors file: http://siduction.org/index.php?module=inhalt&func=view&pid=2
1 • mirrors file: http://sparkylinux.org/download/
1 • mirrors file: http://svn.ultimediaos.com/wsvn/d-i/choose-mirror/trunk/
1 • mirrors file: http://turnkeylinux.org/mirrors
1 • mirrors file: http://universo.canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve/README.mirrors.txt
1 • mirrors file: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/rescatuxdownloads/rescatux-stable/
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bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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