Bug#386880: marked as done (RFC: countrychooser and IP location)

2011-02-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:31:47 +0100 with message-id 20110214063147.gi1...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line Now pointless as we have cdn.debian.net support has caused the Debian Bug report #386880, regarding RFC: countrychooser and IP location to be marked as done

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 03:18:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Robert Millan wrote: +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head -c 2` This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:26:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: If we're going to try to do smart detection of a preferred mirror, it seems to me that geopolitical boundaries are not the most significant factor. Intervening network topography, available bandwidth, and (in some cases, like

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-11 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 10/09/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Millan wrote: +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head -c 2` This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code does gracefully degrade if it fails. Would Debian be able to run this service itself

RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! I think it'd be nice if IP location would be used to check user input from country chooser. The main advantage is that auto installs get the right mirror selected. My proposal is to get the iplocation data as soon as we have network, then check it against user input and if different ask

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi! I think it'd be nice if IP location would be used to check user input from country chooser. The main advantage is that auto installs get the right mirror selected. My proposal is to get the iplocation data as soon as we have network, then

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 September 2006 17:51, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think it'd be nice if IP location would be used to check user input from country chooser. The main advantage is that auto installs get the right mirror selected. My proposal is to

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan wrote: +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head -c 2` This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code does gracefully degrade if it fails. Would Debian be able to run this service itself if we decided to use this? Or would that be a bad

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Robert Millan wrote: +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head -c 2` This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code does gracefully degrade if it fails. Would Debian be able to run this

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 05:51:46PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi! I think it'd be nice if IP location would be used to check user input from country chooser. The main advantage is that auto installs get the right mirror selected.

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 06:17:03PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Feel free to submit a wishlist bugreport with the patch so it can be revisited after the release of Etch. In that case I'd rather wait for the patch. I don't want to write it twice ;) Does Joey's proposal to make it a

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan wrote: Ok. So choose-mirror is the place to do it? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:21, Robert Millan wrote: Does Joey's proposal to make it a choose-mirror-only check address your concerns? Not really. I'd still classify it as post-Etch at this point. Mostly because we don't really have sufficient time to get feedback about reliability, quality

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Robert Millan
Package: choose-mirror Severity: wishlist On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 09:55:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:21, Robert Millan wrote: Does Joey's proposal to make it a choose-mirror-only check address your concerns? Not really. I'd still classify it as post-Etch at

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Robert Millan wrote: +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head -c 2` This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code does gracefully degrade if it fails. Would Debian be able to run this

Re: RFC: countrychooser and IP location

2006-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: Another reason is that physical country and network-connected country arn't necessarily the same; I might do a remote install in another country, and tell it I'm in the US, since I want all the US defaults -- but I'd still prefer to use the iplocated country for mirror then.