On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:03:04PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > I had an idea; It would be very nice with an extension to the available > mirror information where one could create suitable APT lines for > copy-paste to the sources.list file. It could be accessible from a CGI > script, for instance, with a simple form: > When I first wrote the script which generates pages from the mirror master list no one seemed interested in it generating apt lines. How things change.
I'll look into having a file of them generated. > Distribution: (*) stable ( ) testing ( ) unstable > Country: [ SV - Sweden ] > > with easy enough parameters so they could be linked to from the pages > under the international directory (and releases). Danish has a page > under international with mirrors in Denmark, and I have thought about > doing a similar page for Swedish with mirrors in Sweden and Finland, > but I think it would be better to do something that would be based on > the actual mirrors list. > The problem with this is the usual problem in figuring out where a site is actually located. Additionally, geographic location often has little relation to how good a connection that a person has to a site. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
