On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I vaguely remember CPAN doing something like having machine-readable lists > of mirrors, and those lists are available at a couple reliable locations, > and those locations are hardcoded into the tool. > > That doesn't speak to how well updated the mirror is, but I think some Linux > distributions have clever solutions to that aspect too.
Debian stores a diff of the package index for each update. So you can quickly download what has changed, and also see where a mirror is up to mirroring with a few http requests. I think it also combines multiple updates together... so that after 20 updates you don't need to get 20, just 1. _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
