Well, apt-spy takes time, and probably time you don't want to spend while installing. It's a great way to fine-tune things for optimal downloading, but ftp.us.debian.org rotates through decent servers in the US and is generally comparable speed unless you happen to have a great link to a particular mirror (e.g. your ISP (xmission) or BYU has a good link to purdue for whatever reason).
In any case, apt-spy won't help the original poster because his problem was not a mirror but a special blackdown java repository that probably has no mirror anywhere, and certainly not one apt-spy knows about. On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 at 16:34 -0700, Ryan Nielsen wrote: > Roberto Mello wrote the following on 2/4/2005 3:17 PM : > > >apt-spy is a little program that will write a new sources.list for you > >based on badwidth tests. > > > Debian should have that as an install step, instead of their current > source selection steps. Wouldn't apt-spy be more efficient for > everyone. Yes, it is a few more packages to install. So, if you > weren't looking for the smallest install . . . > > Thanks for bringing this up Jared and Rob. > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' > -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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