*- Joe Emenaker wrote about "WISHLIST: Let us select a mirror site from a menu or list..." > It sure would be great (and it sure would take some load off of > ftp.debian.org) if dselect could ftp a list of mirrors and then let us > select one. > > I like using the mirrors because they're faster and also because I feel good > knowing I'm helping to lighten the load on "Mother" (ftp.debian.org). > However, it's kind of a pain to go fetch the mirrors list by hand and then > enter the info by hand. Also, it looks like some mirrors only carry > "stable", while others carry the full compliment of distributions. > > It would be nice if, when I select that my access method is ftp, I could > optionally fetch a fresh copy of the mirrors file and then (whether I > fetched a new copy or not) I would be presented with a list of mirrors, how > fast they are, and what distributions they mirror. This isn't all that > different from how the CDDB database system works... and I think that it > really works slick. > > I'd be willing to code this... provided whoever maintains dselect would be > open to the idea of including it. > > - Joe > > >
I think something like this has been discussed on debian-devel. A 'Package' file format of the mirrors can be found at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/Mirrors. You might want to contact the APT Development Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and offer such help and see were they stand. Also you should probably check out the files in http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt/. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." - unknown Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------