On Sun, 3 Jun 2018, Luke Shumaker wrote:
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I'm sorry! I missed this part of the email; I thought fauno added you
guys to the mirror list. You should be in parabolaweb and the wiki
now, and the `pacman-mirrorlist` package pretty soon.
Looks good, thanks!
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GeoIP is on the ToDo list though;
"// TODO: weight by geoip or something?" has been in the code ever
since the very first commit.
Among the motivations for running ftp.acc.umu.se are the aim to
provide excellent service to our region, so we strongly recommend
using a geoip aware download redirector. Mirrorbits
https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits comes highly recommended by many
projects that we mirror.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look in to mirrorbits.
The most straight-forward way for package managers might be to just do
an initial request (fetching a list/index file for example) and then
aim future requests for that session towards the server that served
the index file. You don't need file-by-file geoip perfectness for the
package manager stuff, and it's usually smaller files meaning that the
overhead of always following redirects might become painful.
For website-stuff it might be fancy to use the JSON capabilities if
Mirrorbits to be able to show which mirror might be serving the
download, or allow the user to choose, etc. But the most common way to
do it is just to link to the mirrorbits download URL.
/Nikke
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