creating sources.list with apt-spy

[Dmitriy]

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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:00:35AM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote:
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> At the Debian BOF last night, I had enquired about the ability to create =
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> sources.list based on the actual connection/bandwidth availability. A cou=
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> people at the Indian resturaunt mentioned that there was a program to do=
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> that, prefixed with apt-, so naturally I had to track that down today.
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> apt-spy does exactly what I was thinking/wanting to do. I was curious wha=
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> other people in the area get when they run it, this is what it gave me ov=
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> in Cupertino, on PacBell DSL (good or bad as that may be;-).
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> - -------- sources.list when I ran apt-spy ------------
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> # 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
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> # The following site was benchmarked at 70.35 kB/s
> deb ftp://archive.progeny.com/debian/ unstable contrib
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> # The following site was benchmarked at 68.59 kB/s
> deb ftp://debian.tod.net/debian/ unstable non-free
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> #########################################################################=
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> # 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 su=
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> why the kB/s is so low, I normally get about 155 kB/s with apt on the mai=
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> debian US host (wherever it pools me out to). These selected hosts above =
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> in fact have the higher numbers on them, and it checked a lot of them.
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> Of course I was getting as good of a feed from Oz and Germany in some cas=
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> so local is not always best of course, no surprise there...;-)
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I have packbell DSL in Fremont, and I get around the same speeds.

So I guess 155 kB/s is more of an anomaly(never had that)....
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> Alan DuBoff
> Software Orchestration, Inc.
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