On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:58:12PM +0530, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi all, > Remember me talking about the best server bit. I just realized that > even that implementation is half-done. What it actually does is just > tries to do so latency tests and on the behalf of that it gives the > user a server. > > What would be really cool is if one could use server based on a > combination of :- > > a. Latency > b. Freshness of the archive > > This probably would make the whole thing a bit more complex but I as a > user would perhaps look for > > a. sacrificing a bit more latency > b. For pretty fresh archives
I'm not sure what "freshness" would mean, how to determine it, or how you would automatically pick a server based on it once it was determined. Presumably this feature would work by downloading the list of official Debian servers from [somewhere], then pinging them all and picking the best one. If a server is lagging significantly behind the daily pulse, it should be dropped from the list of official mirrors. I don't think that aptitude can easily tell which servers are lagging; well, maybe if you downloaded a Release file from each server and checked the date... > Another point perhaps (going out on the leash here) what do you think > of the metalinker stuff www.metalinker.org I don't know much about it. From what you said it sounded a bit like bittorrent, and I know there was a project to use bittorrent for apt downloads (Cameron Dale was working on it, IIRC). It looks like you can install apt-transport-debtorrent in unstable now; I don't know how well it works since I haven't tried it. Daniel _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
