Dependencies

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Monday 17 November 2003 05:27 pm, Duane Attaway wrote:

> There's a nice little script called mirrorselect that grabs a list of
> servers that claimed to have voluntered, downloads a md5summed snippet
> from each, and compiles a list of the fastest.  It also configures the
> system to fetch from the fastest ones first and then down the list.

Yeah, that's the very obvious bit that's been missing from everything since 
rpmfind.

Which, by the way, does a pretty good job of resolving dependencies itself, 
and has been around for AGES.

It doesn't have mirrorselect though, that's a great program - as long as at 
least ONE of the mirrors isn't swamped.  

Mandrake mirrors tend to be pretty ugly most of the time these days.