Don't know whom to send this... so I'm replying to myself on the maillist... some people call it a "bump".
Isn't there anyone who can answer this? Thanks, Mircea On Saturday 04 March 2006 09:46, Mircea Bardac wrote: > Few days ago I have looked into a Kubuntu installation > in /etc/apt/sources.lst. The following question crossed my mind: what would > be the advantage of choosing HTTP over FTP mirrors? I then thought of the > complicated FTP protocol (active and passive connections) and switched > every ftp to http. To no surprise, the connections were established in an > instant, compared to a FTP connection (and I was connecting somewhere in > the country, over a very large connection = let's just say I was able to > download with 1 MByte/sec). > > Today, I do a pacman -Syu and what do I see: pacman stalling before > downloading a package. It quickly remembered me of that Kubuntu system > configured to download from FTP repositories. I take a look > at /etc/pacman.d/whatever and what do I see? Lots of FTP repositories. > > Very short question: WHY? > > Thanks. > Mircea -- http://mircea.bardac.net
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