Re: apt-get sources
Andy Saxena <andyML@nyc.rr.com> writes:
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:21:42PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
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>> On Tue, 21 May 2002, user list wrote:
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>> > Is the debian ftp site also a round-robin of all the ftp mirrors?
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>> It *should* be, but it's better to use apt-spy to find the fastest for
>> you.
>
> Sorry, but it's been my experience that netselect-apt is much, much
> faster than apt-spy.
...because netselect-apt is much, much dumber. netselect only tests
ping time, whereas apt-spy actually tests bandwidth, which is obviously
much more useful.
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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