From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: feature request: easier "auto select a close mirror for me"
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8DE73944-387C-4282-BCB7-069B3D2DB584@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bUVMziukjQBqwRi+IEW4cv@WsWcpFUqLsIWPAWGZYDYg>
On Aug 28, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> On 2015.08.28 14:23, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, Roger Pack!
>> > It would be awesome if the top option for servers were "auto select
>> > closest" or something like that.
>
> I wouldn't make it part of setup.exe, but a separate tool
setup.exe must remain monolithic, by its nature.
> like Arch Linux's mirrorselect.
Yum has a plugin to do this, too, enabled by default in current RHEL type OSes:
https://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/FastestMirror
I expect the same is true of apt, but I can’t be bothered to chase down a reference.
“Nearest” is the wrong term, since as Andrey points out, geographic proximity is not the best gauge of mirror speed. Instead, these features generally work out which mirrors are faster by more pragmatic means.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-28 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-28 18:35 Roger Pack
2015-08-28 18:50 ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-28 20:49 ` Jack
2015-08-28 21:47 ` Warren Young [this message]
2015-08-29 17:15 ` Philip Daniels
2015-08-29 19:19 ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-30 11:45 ` Warren Young
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