On 9/21/07, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2007, at 21:49, paul beard wrote: > > > as I watch my port upgrade process scroll by (as much as progress on > > an 800 MHz G4 can be called scrolling), I wonder if there is some way > > to fetch from geographically nearer mirrors. Lyon, FR, is a long way > > from here, and even if they have oodles of bandwidth, avoiding > > trans-oceanic hops is probably a good idea. > > > > I know I can hack the order of mirrors but that's not persistent. > > Would there any way to add a list per continent or region with that > > region specified at install time? > > As I recall you've brought this up several times, but I think the > idea needs to be fleshed out more and more-precisely defined: exactly > how would this feature work, how would it behave, how would it be > implemented, would there be any downsides, etc. Developer time is > limited, and we have very few people who are comfortable coding in > base, so a much more precise specification of the feature is needed. > > several times? Yikes, I sound like a nag ;-) I think something as simple as a per continent or region list of mirrors is all that's needed. North America-based installs would use mirrors on that continent, European-based folks would use theirs, etc.
It's not a big deal but it does seem inefficient to fetch stuff across oceans . . . . -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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