How about having a graphical mirror list?

susmit shannigrahi thinklinux.ssh at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 15:41:06 UTC 2007


> One addition that will come in Fedora 9 (I don't think it made it into
> F8 but I could be wrong) is that anaconda, the installer, will be able
> to use the mirrorlist directly.  This will avoid the user having to
> type in a URL for their country at all - it will be automagic based on
> GeoIP, just like the updates are.

That should be great..but I was talking about  _manual_ downloads, not
anaconda or yum.
For example when someone wants to download the .iso files et al.
Won't this be more easier than traversing the list?



> Jef Spaleta and Jima have been working on auto-generating these maps.
> http://fedoraproject.org/maps/ for examples.  There's code in the
> Fedora admin git tree for them.

Thanks for the pointer.

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Regards,
Susmit.

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