[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] scripts/download.pl: Use CDN for kernel downloads

Petr Štetiar ynezz at true.cz
Mon May 23 03:29:04 PDT 2016


Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> [2016-05-23 11:11:50]:

> On 2016-05-23 10:29, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> > Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> writes:
> > 
> >> -			push @mirrors, "https://kernel.org/pub/$dir";
> >> +			push @mirrors, "https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/$dir";
> >>  			push @mirrors, "ftp://kernel.org/pub/$dir";
> > 
> > Not sure that is a good idea at this point.  At least here, kernel.org
> > has IPv6 AAAA records while cdn.kernel.org does not:
>
> So why not add both? :)

If I understand it correctly, the code is going to use another mirror only if
the current mirror fails. In my case the download was awfully slow, but didn't
failed.

-- ynezz



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