On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:57:33AM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:09 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > I did this by taking the old FC4 ".us.east" lists and (after > > confirmation of the repos) including them on my system. I wasn't sure > > that was the accepted usage, but now it seems so. I know there are > > probably myriad ways to accomplish this with a more user-friendly bent, > > but would it make sense for there to be a tool that asked the user to > > select a geographic region, and populated a local mirror list > > appropriately, using a remotely gathered list that included lat/long > > data? Does such a thing exist already and I'm just clueless? > > I'm thinking of hacking yum-fastestmirror to rank based on number of > hops to the mirror, this would get you the closest mirrors "as the > packet flies", which is probably better than geographical proximity. I would be interested in seeing how this works out. I wrote the connect() based mirror-selection algorithm to be fast, and semi-accurate. It might be nice to have multiple mirror-selection algorithms built into fastestmirror, and selectable via a configure option. This would allow us to test the various techniques and see which yields the most reliable results. > Though it would still be nice to track actual transfer rates from each > mirror. I don't know if that can be hacked on in a plugin. I really need > to learn some python... You could do this by pulling down a file from each mirror, and using the average_rate() function in urlgrabbers RateEstimator[0] class. luke [0]: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/help/urlgrabber.progress.html#RateEstimator -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
