Subject: Re: Need App info
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 13:27:12 AKDT
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 13:05, Tom wrote:
>
> > > On 16 Oct 2002, Greg Madden wrote:
> > > What app can determine the fastest route to a (list) of servers, i.e.
> > > Debian mitrrors.
> >
> > Isn't there an 'apt-spy' (or something like that) that takes the Debian
> > mirror list, checks your ping and bandwidth, then builds you a
> > sources.list file?
> >
> > I'll have to dig - I think that's it...
>
> Yes - apt-spy is the package, and available in 3.0-stable. Installed on my
> Alpha, but gives a floating-point exception on the second RETR it tries...
Thanks for the info. I will try apt-spy..I found the app I was thinking
about- 'netselect', includes netselect-apt which is close to what
apt-spy does.
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