On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just an idea: instead of (or in addition to) "blind" planning, > based on net topology, geography, declared bandwith etc., > yum could use an exploration approach: > > 1) choose a few good mirrors candidate > 2) download one file from each of them (first file from > first mirror, second file from second mirror, ....) > 3) gather speed statistics > 4) reevaluate best mirrors according to statistics for the > remaining files You're basically describing yum-plugin-fastestmirror. Of course that doesn't get one any sort of parallelism when downloading packages, but it answers one of your complaints by rating actual data rates. -- Garrett Holmstrom -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
