[Yum-devel] Fastest mirror selection plugin

[Luke Macken]

Hi,

I put together a yum plugin that hooks into the predownload slot and
sorts the repo's mirrorlist by connection speed.  The initial concept
of the mirror selection algorithm was taken from the fastest_cvsup[1]
project, which seems to be very fast (after multi-threading it) and
pretty reliable.

http://people.redhat.com/lmacken/fastestmirror.py

Enjoy!


luke

[1]: http://fastest-cvsup.sourceforge.net/