Dependencies

[Jeremy Turner]

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On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:27, Duane Attaway wrote:
> Gentoo has something so simple, its funny.
>=20
> There's a nice little script called mirrorselect that grabs a list of
> servers that claimed to have voluntered, downloads a md5summed snippet
> from each, and compiles a list of the fastest.  It also configures the
> system to fetch from the fastest ones first and then down the list.

Debian has had it as well.  There's apt-spy, which "writes a
sources.list file based on bandwidth tests Parses a list of mirrors and
tests each of the mirrors for bandwidth.  Writes a /etc/apt/sources.list
file based on the responses it gets." and there's netselect, which
"Choose the fastest server automatically. This is netselect, an
ultrafast intelligent parallelizing binary-search implementation of
"ping."  You give it a (possibly very long) list of servers, and it
chooses the fastest/closest one automatically.  It's good for finding
the fastest ftp.debian.org mirror, the least laggy IRC server, or the
best Squid neighbour."

So netselect uses ping times, and apt-spy uses actual download
bandwidth, which is really what you'd like.

Jeremy

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Jeremy Turner <jeremy at linuxwebguy.com>
The LinuxWebGuy

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