[packagers] mirrorlist suggestion

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Fabian Arrotin wrote:

> Due to the fact that apt.sw.be is *often* down during several hours,
> isn't it a good idea to point the mirrorlist on another server than
> apt.sw.be ?

What we really should do is generate the mirrorlist dynamicly based on the 
correctness of the mirror (up ? in sync ? nearby ?) and continuously 
monitor the state.

And also make it rrdns in different locations around the world.


> Because it's good to have a mirror list that yum can use, but if the
> list is on the more unstable machine, that doesn't make sense.

Right, but HEAnet is all we got. The other mirros may be more stable, but 
are updated less frequent and cannot handle the load.


> Why not creating a mirrorlist.rpmforge.net record that points to a more
> stable machine and that contains only the mirror list ? So that machine
> doesn't have to be a powerful one nor have much bandwidth .. just a
> stable and always powered on machine  ;-) ...

Right, we should do something like that. And also manage our mirrors 
better. I have added a list of mirrors on the wiki.

But remember that the mirrorlist is not just one file. It is a file for 
each distribution, so we have at least 10 different mirrorlist files 
currently. An automatic mechanism would be better.

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