mirrorlist cgi

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 23:29 +0200, Ola Thoresen wrote:

> EU, Asia/Pacific, Middle East, Africa (maybe divided into north/south)
> could either be gouped together by mirrorlist itself, or it could accept
> country=XX as a list (country=XX,YY,ZZ), so one could make a longer
> mirrorlist if neccesary. 

mirrorlist as a list  might be easiest, I think.



> I also think it would be a good idea to add the global list to the end
> of all the lists (or at least those returning less than say 5 mirrors).
> That would ensure that one or two delayed or broken mirrors would not
> cause an entire country to be left without updates.

but then what about people who want to stay inside their country
boundaries b/c of cost issues.

no, I'd rather let the user specify if they want extra stuff if they've
already said they want something specifically.

-sv