metalinks for F10 download pages
mirrors.fp.o now supports metalinks [1]. metalinks are XML documents
that act like a yum mirrorlist, but with more detail, allowing client
download tools to more easily select a mirror that will be fastest for
them.
Just as you have the BitTorrent, Direct Download, and Jigdo columns
now, I'd like to consider adding a Metalink column.
It's easy to get the metalink URL for a given download.fp.o ISO URL.
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Beta/...
becomes
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/...
(e.g. s:download:mirrors:, s:pub(.*):metalink?path=pub$1: )
Let me know if you have any questions. If you wanted to add them to
the 10-Beta download page now, that'd be fine with me too.
Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler.
[1] http://metalinker.org/
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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux