About ubuntu mirror server

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:30:03PM +0800, DULMANDAKH Sukhbaatar wrote:
> I thought it maybe appropriate to cross send this to devel and mirrors
> list. We, Mongolian Open Source Initiative and adsolux LLC, are
> supporting Ubuntu through hosting releases and archive mirror server
> in here or Mongolia. We've registered it, also have alias domains
> mn.releases.ubuntu.com and mn.archive.ubuntu.com. But there is no way
> to select our server from Synaptics in neigther gutsy and hardy. The
> only way to use our server is if you install Ubuntu selecting one of
> the Mongolian time zones. Reading through mirrors list I saw that I'm
> not the only one who have this kind of problem. Maybe there is no real
> value of having this kind of server if users cannot easy configure to
> use it. But it's really boosting package installation and update time
> for more than 10 times. All I want it is to include Mongolian archive
> mirror in synaptic configuration or make it configurable through
> synaptic. I've also filed bug at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/153284 in
> October 2007, still no answer.

There is work in progress to make mirror selection dynamic at runtime,
rather than selecting a mirror at installation time, which should address
this in a more scalable way than listing every available mirror in Synaptic.

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 - mdz