creating sources.list with apt-spy

[Alan DuBoff]

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At the Debian BOF last night, I had enquired about the ability to create a 
sources.list based on the actual connection/bandwidth availability. A couple 
people at the Indian resturaunt mentioned that there was a program to do 
that, prefixed with apt-, so naturally I had to track that down today.

apt-spy does exactly what I was thinking/wanting to do. I was curious what 
other people in the area get when they run it, this is what it gave me over 
in Cupertino, on PacBell DSL (good or bad as that may be;-).

- -------- sources.list when I ran apt-spy ------------

# This sources.list was generated by apt-sources v2.20
# Copyright(c) 2001 by Danny Rodriguez
#
# The following site was benchmarked at 70.60 kB/s
deb ftp://debian.oanet.com/debian/ unstable main

# The following site was benchmarked at 70.35 kB/s
deb ftp://archive.progeny.com/debian/ unstable contrib

# The following site was benchmarked at 68.59 kB/s
deb ftp://debian.tod.net/debian/ unstable non-free

###########################################################################
# Below are sites you may want to consider adding but are commented out
#
# -----[ Uncomment below for HELIX CODE site (GNOME) ]-----
# deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian unstable main
# -----[ Uncomment below for KDE site (& Kdevelop)   ]-----
# deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps
# -----[ Uncomment below for debian security         ]-----
# deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

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Interesting that it gave me the progeny server as one of them. I'm not sure 
why the kB/s is so low, I normally get about 155 kB/s with apt on the main 
debian US host (wherever it pools me out to). These selected hosts above do 
in fact have the higher numbers on them, and it checked a lot of them.

Of course I was getting as good of a feed from Oz and Germany in some cases, 
so local is not always best of course, no surprise there...;-)

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Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration, Inc.
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