[mirror-admin] fastestmirror (was Re: Redirecting Rawhide to Private Mirrors)

[Andrew McNabb]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:38:52PM -0500, Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
>
> It really comes down to these 3 lines of Python code (in  
> /usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py)...
>
>                     time_before = time.time()
>                     sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
>                     result = time.time() - time_before
>
> Any Python wizards out there who'd be willing to give it a shot?

I've whipped together a patch that does a slightly better job of
measuring mirrors.  Instead of just timing how long it takes to connect,
it times how long it takes to download repomd.xml from the mirror.  This
still isn't perfect, since repomd.xml isn't particularly large, but the
results should be much more sane than what we're currently seeing.  The
patch is posted to bug 484371:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484371

It would probably be helpful if someone tests it out and posts a comment
to the bug report.

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