Dependencies

[Brian Kelsay]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>On Monday 17 November 2003 05:27 pm, Duane Attaway wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
>
Yes, it sounds like mirrorselect would be great.  I was only able a few 
times to get a mandrake system to update without locking up.  Once they 
got into 8.0 versions it was impossible.  Then I couldn't find a mirror 
that even worked.  I had better luck w/ RedHat, Gentoo and now Debian.

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