Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: autoredirect for savannah downloads

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:23:21AM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Karl Berry wrote:
> > 
> > No, we certainly don't want to redirect the ftp.gnu.org name itself.
> 
> OK, I haven't thought about that aspect.  Entirely reasonable and
> understandable.
> 
> >     to actually redirect to the _fastest_ nearest mirror.
> > 
> > What's done now is the best that can be done, as far as I know.
> > Do you have something else in mind?
> 
> Not really, but something similar was done in some Debian package --
> to determine which mirror is "best" from your location (of course the
> "location" is not permanent in some cases, which is why you could run
> a certain command to reconfigure your sources.list).  (I don't
> remember the name of the package and never used it, sorry.)

netselect-apt :)

I just use my ISP's mirror though.

> > that distro X will think that the new version of package foo has
> > disappeared
> 
> Don't worry about that: no distro tools are so insane or so poorly
> written to the extent that they could not possibly identify such a
> case.  In this scenario, such a tool will give a false positive (if
> the job is run more frequently) that eventually the maintainer will
> ignore.

FWIW Gentoo already has support for GNU mirrors, e.g.:

  mirror://gnu/freedink/${P}.tar.bz2

I'm not a Gentoo expert, but you could search/ask if they experienced
issues with it.

-- 
Sylvain