On 3/9/06, Travis Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, I imagine a short answer is that most mirrors are graciously
provided by third parties, and if they decide to provide FTP access then
that's what we've got - it's out of our control.
If http access is also possible to some of these repos, then I'm not
sure why we'd choose ftp over http - perhaps better support for resuming
downloads? Dunno. Maybe my reply will get some more knowledgable people
in here to answer.
-- Cerebral
Mircea Bardac wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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