new idea for lunar - auto selecting download mirror using country codes

[Eric Sandall]

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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Zbigniew £uszpiñski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Before I use any big module like firefox, patch it first by inserting in
> SOURCE_URL[0]= local, huge and fast ftp.icm.edu.pl mirror which is only 6
> hops from me (it's even closer to me than nearest proxy server!). It's quite
> boring task to patch modules knowing they will be overwritten every lunar
> update. So...
>
> What do you think about changing enumeration system of source_url to something
> more faster which allows to use local mirror servers first to speed up
> transfers?
>
> We could use for example international telephone calling codes (those one
> beginning with plus sign e.g. +48 Poland, +49 Germany +33 France, etc...) Of
> course without plus in lunar...
>
> Or to preserve compability sed links with country code at end .pl e.g. to give
> to wget only the one in the same or in the neighbour country.

Would the use of netselect[0] be a better idea?

- -sandalle

[0] http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/netselect

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