multiple mirror code && setup HEAD

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
> >What you should do is have all the sites pinged when parsing
> >mirrors.lst, and then store the resulting list and times for future
> >reference on disk.
>
> The mirrors list is supposed to be automatically "pre pinged".  The
list
> of mirrors that you see is supposed to be a list of sites with the
> most up-to-date info.
>
> I get a list twice a day of mirror sites which have failed the
"up-to-date"
> test.  They get removed from the list.

For a user in (say) Australia, your ping results are incorrect. We are
talking about presenting the fastest mirror _from the users location_.

Rob