Mirrorselect is selecting all mirrors that time out or won't let me connect. Is selecting all mirrors that end in *.de, which is half a world away from Pennsylvania, USA. I know that I am not having problems just generally connecting to mirrors from my location because when I manually configure the mirrors for make.conf, and choose ones that are in the US and by me I get connections of up 400Kb/s. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. follow the steps to select mirror in the setup instructions. 2. 3. Actual Results: Gave me invalid mirrors and mirrors that average 30Kb/s. Expected Results: Gave me mirrors that are actually giving good download speeds, not mirrors half a world away. I found mirrors at Notre Dom that give me connections at 400Kb/s.
Kicking over to johnm, who maintains mirrorselect.
this might be due to a change in the way mirrorselect utilizes wget. checking...
I have the same issue with mirrorselect. When mirrorselect is used in deep mode (-D), the url's that are unable to be resolved, are instantly returned. So their time is shorter than the fastest download. Therefore mirrorselect selects them as the fastest sites. I believe that is where the issue is. I have the issue in 0.84 and 0.86.
I have just comitted 0.87, this should solve the issue. the problem was pretty simple. $? returned 0 regardless of whether or not wget returned 0. this has now been solved and should work fine, any problems please let me know.
