Dependencies
Jeremy Turner
jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
Fri Nov 21 17:55:00 CST 2003
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On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:27, Duane Attaway wrote:
> Gentoo has something so simple, its funny.
>=20
> 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.
Debian has had it as well. There's apt-spy, which "writes a
sources.list file based on bandwidth tests Parses a list of mirrors and
tests each of the mirrors for bandwidth. Writes a /etc/apt/sources.list
file based on the responses it gets." and there's netselect, which
"Choose the fastest server automatically. This is netselect, an
ultrafast intelligent parallelizing binary-search implementation of
"ping." You give it a (possibly very long) list of servers, and it
chooses the fastest/closest one automatically. It's good for finding
the fastest ftp.debian.org mirror, the least laggy IRC server, or the
best Squid neighbour."
So netselect uses ping times, and apt-spy uses actual download
bandwidth, which is really what you'd like.
Jeremy
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Jeremy Turner <jeremy at linuxwebguy.com>
The LinuxWebGuy
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