Suggestions (how to choose mirrors)

[Garrett Holmstrom]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:
> Just an idea: instead of (or in addition to) "blind" planning,
> based on net topology, geography, declared bandwith etc.,
> yum could use an exploration approach:
>
> 1) choose a few good mirrors candidate
> 2) download one file from each of them (first file from
> first mirror, second file from second mirror, ....)
> 3) gather speed statistics
> 4) reevaluate best mirrors according to statistics for the
> remaining files


You're basically describing yum-plugin-fastestmirror.  Of course that
doesn't get one any sort of parallelism when downloading packages, but
it answers one of your complaints by rating actual data rates.

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Garrett Holmstrom