[Nix-dev] Using a different mirror

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Erick Tryzelaar wrote:

> Since I'm in the US, it's a bit more efficient for me to download
> something like the linux kernel from a US mirror instead of the default
> German mirror. Is there any way to have this be handled automatically?

Not yet, but I'd like to add it.  There is an issue about this:

  https://bugs.cs.uu.nl/browse/NIXPKGS-70

BTW, www.kernel.org says:

  Additionally, the hostnames www.all.kernel.org, ftp.all.kernel.org, and
  rsync.all.kernel.org are worldwide round-robins among all four servers.

We could use www.all.kernel.org for downloads, but from this description I don't
think it returns a geographically close server.  Too bad.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco