My name is Michael Sandford and I was wondering if there was any sort of system in place to help with auto configuration of apt sources from the list of mirrors. I am going to assume that there is no such system and briefly describe my idea. I thought it would be slick if there was some way to configure apt that helped make picking the mirrors to use for downloading easier. When I first tried debian I just used whatever the defaults were and getting new packages took forever. If there had been some way to pick among a list of mirrors that were sorted by ping time or something like that I would have had a much easier time. What I am proposing I guess is a database of all debian mirrors that also includes a lot of data on the mirrors, most importantly what all they mirror. I recently tried to install off of an unofficial woody install CD and had a "fun" time trying to find mirrors with the right packages. The person who wrote the installer had the right idea by providin! g a list of servers to pick from, but I'm pretty sure it was just from a textfile and it did nothing to address how fast the servers were and if they were even accessible. I have a fair bit of experience with databases, you can see my latest project here: http://reciphp.vader82.net or http://sourceforge.net/projects/reciphp/ . I look forward to your reply and I hope I can help debian.
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