Re: APT sources idea
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:03:04PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
>
> I had an idea; It would be very nice with an extension to the available
> mirror information where one could create suitable APT lines for
> copy-paste to the sources.list file. It could be accessible from a CGI
> script, for instance, with a simple form:
>
When I first wrote the script which generates pages from the mirror
master list no one seemed interested in it generating apt lines.
How things change.
I'll look into having a file of them generated.
> Distribution: (*) stable ( ) testing ( ) unstable
> Country: [ SV - Sweden ]
>
> with easy enough parameters so they could be linked to from the pages
> under the international directory (and releases). Danish has a page
> under international with mirrors in Denmark, and I have thought about
> doing a similar page for Swedish with mirrors in Sweden and Finland,
> but I think it would be better to do something that would be based on
> the actual mirrors list.
>
The problem with this is the usual problem in figuring out where a site
is actually located. Additionally, geographic location often has little
relation to how good a connection that a person has to a site.
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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