On man, 2006-07-17 at 17:11 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 02:28 +0530, Rahul wrote: > > > If you do not add &country=DE (or your country code) but there is no > > > specific set of mirrors that are current for your country then it will > > > return the global set of current mirrors. > > > > > > if you do specify a country you want and there is no specific set of > > > mirrors then it will hand you back an empty file. This is for the people > > > who don't want to use bandwidth outside of their country for cost > > > reasons, proxy reasons, etc. > > > > > > > What about users who would prefer their country but would like to fall > > back on a global list otherwise? > > > Then don't specify a country in the url. > > It will look up your country by your ip and if it has its own mirror > file it will use it - otherwise it uses the global file. Maybe one could add several "virtual" "countries" (without getting into politics here). EU, Asia/Pacific, Middle East, Africa (maybe divided into north/south) could either be gouped together by mirrorlist itself, or it could accept country=XX as a list (country=XX,YY,ZZ), so one could make a longer mirrorlist if neccesary. For small countries with just a few mirrors, there would be much gain in having the list extended with either neighbouring countries or at least contries with known good connectivity. For 'NO' I know there are very few mirrors, but I also know there would be no problem falling back to 'SE' or 'DK' - or maybe even 'UK' as all of those ar fairly tight connected to us. I also think it would be a good idea to add the global list to the end of all the lists (or at least those returning less than say 5 mirrors). That would ensure that one or two delayed or broken mirrors would not cause an entire country to be left without updates. Rgds. Ola Thoresen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
