Re: Q: best strategy/tool to select a mirror (explicitly not via proxies like http.debian.net)

2014-06-30 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > > almost all (...) are in Debian archive ;) > Good to hear :) > > we are providing backport builds > Are you doing that in addition to or instead of providing official > backports in the wheezy-backports suite? > http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ Sin

Re: Q: best strategy/tool to select a mirror (explicitly not via proxies like http.debian.net)

2014-06-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > almost all (...) are in Debian archive ;) Good to hear :) > we are providing backport builds Are you doing that in addition to or instead of providing official backports in the wheezy-backports suite? http://backports.debian.org/Cont

Re: Q: best strategy/tool to select a mirror (explicitly not via proxies like http.debian.net)

2014-06-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > > Thanks in advance for the ideas/feedback > If it were me, I would upload only to ftp.d.o and use http.d.n but I > guess these packages can't go into the Debian archive? almost all (but some not yet fully ready/heavy data) are in Debian archive ;) we ar

Re: Q: best strategy/tool to select a mirror (explicitly not via proxies like http.debian.net)

2014-06-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Thanks in advance for the ideas/feedback If it were me, I would upload only to ftp.d.o and use http.d.n but I guess these packages can't go into the Debian archive? If not maybe you could use mirrorbrain or use the code behind http.d.n.

Q: best strategy/tool to select a mirror (explicitly not via proxies like http.debian.net)

2014-06-27 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I am setting up a little helper to enable neuro.debian.net repository on users' boxes. We have a few mirrors around the globe and the simplest approach was to use netselect, but that one relies on UDP or ICMP (not even both at the same time), and some mirrors filter those out... So I wondered if