[tex-live] Choosing a mirror

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Mon Nov 23 21:19:21 CET 2009


Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:

> When you say "run", Ken, should I infer "re-run", since 'tlmgr update
> --list' seems to use just one mirror, selected at the beginning.  But
> even if I re-run it, it chooses the same mirror :

for a very long time, i there was only one choice for uk addresses, so
if mirror.ctan.org had deduced that your address was here, you would
have got cambridge.

there are now 2 uk mirrors (you wait 10 years for a mirror, then two
come along at pretty much at once), so you should in principal get
rotation of addresses.

note that i don't know (a) how mirror.ctan decides which country you're
in, and (b) whether my deduction (from tenuous evidence) that it always
goes for a mirror in your own country, if such exist.

(a mirror in the same country isn't always a good model; at one stage my
wife and i exchanged email via new york, even though we both had .uk
addresses -- ny was the nearest peer between the two networks.)

robin


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