FS#22668 - Make mirror selection 'smarter'

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Sunday, 30 January 2011, 13:03 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 09:14 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2010.05
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

If you are doing an netinstall, you need to select your mirror. I think it would be smart to order the mirrors per country, because users most likely download archlinux packages from their countries mirror.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 09:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:  See
 FS#22510  - Netinstall should use an updated mirrorlist
Comment by Andrew Mellor (quantumphaze) - Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 13:36 GMT
I'd like to add to this that integrating the mirror ranking package would be great too and actually make it "smarter". Something like "Auto-detect closest/fastest mirror" above the mirror list with a spacer between would look nice.
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 09:12 GMT
problems I see:
- not easy to pick the "best" mirror (high speed, low latency, up to date)
- listing may contain outdated / no longer valid mirrors, and may lack recently introduced mirrors.
Can partly be solved by updating the mirrorlist package (or fetching from http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/all/ )
However closest geographically has nothing to do with best performing mirror.

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