[Yum-devel] Fastest mirror selection plugin

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 04:59 -0500, Luke Macken wrote:

> | Next thing I have in mind wrt this is to add persistance - calculate the 
> | mirrors once and store them someplace and only recalculate every now and 
> | then, a simple approach would be "if the mirrorlist is older than a day or 
> | week" or something. Another thing I thought about is recalculate when 
> | network mask changes: desktops and servers typically don't much move 
> | around but a laptop can move around a lot and affect the optimal mirror 
> | selection.
> 
> Not a bad idea.  I might try and hack something together this week that
> talks with NetworkManager and stores the current location and mirrorlist
> locally.

Here's a quick-n-dirty version which after initial timings stores the
host timings into a file and populates timedhosts from that on
consecutive runs, certainly makes a big difference.

http://laiskiainen.org/yum/plugins/fastestmirror/fastestmirror-persistent.py

	- Panu -