CPAN::Mirrors - Get CPAN miror information and select a fast one
use CPAN::Mirrors; my $mirrors = CPAN::Mirrors->new; $mirrors->parse_from_file( $mirrored_by_file ); my $seen = {}; my $best_continent = $mirrors->find_best_continents( { seen => $seen } ); my @mirrors = $mirrors->get_mirrors_by_continents( $best_continent ); my $callback = sub { my( $m ) = @_; printf "%s = %s\n", $m->hostname, $m->rtt }; $mirrors->get_mirrors_timings( \@mirrors, $seen, $callback ); @mirrors = sort { $a->rtt <=> $b->rtt } @mirrors; print "Best mirrors are ", map( { $_->rtt } @mirrors[0..3] ), "\n";
Return a list of continents based on those defined in MIRRORED.BY.
Return a list of countries based on those defined in MIRRORED.BY. It only returns countries for the continents you specify (as defined in continents). If you don't specify any continents, it returns all of the countries listed in MIRRORED.BY.
continents
Return a list of mirrors based on those defined in MIRRORED.BY. It only returns mirrors for the countries you specify (as defined in countries). If you don't specify any countries, it returns all of the mirrors listed in MIRRORED.BY.
countries
A more sensible synonym for mirrors.
Return a list of mirrors for all of continents you specify. If you don't specify any continents, it returns all of the mirrors.
A more sensible synonym for countries.
best_mirrors checks for the best mirrors based on the list of continents you pass, or, without that, all continents, as defined by CPAN::Mirrored::By. It pings each mirror, up to the value of how_many. In list context, it returns up to how_many mirror. In scalar context, it returns the single best mirror.
best_mirrors
CPAN::Mirrored::By
how_many
Arguments
how_many - the number of mirrors to return. Default: 1 callback - a callback for find_best_continents verbose - true or false on all the whining and moaning. Default: false continents - an array ref of the continents to check
If you don't specify the continents, best_mirrors calls find_best_continents to get the list of continents to check.
find_best_continents
Returns up to N random mirrors for the specified continents. Specify the continents as an array reference.
Pings the listed mirrors and returns a list of mirrors sorted in ascending ping times.
find_best_continents goes through each continent and pings N random mirrors on that continent. It then orders the continents by ascending median ping time. In list context, it returns the ordered list of continent. In scalar context, it returns the same list as an anonymous array.
N
Arguments:
n - the number of hosts to ping for each continent. Default: 3 seen - a hashref of cached hostname ping times verbose - true or false for noisy or quiet. Default: false callback - a subroutine to run after each ping. ping_cache_limit - how long, in seconds, to reuse previous ping times. Default: 1 day
The seen hash has hostnames as keys and anonymous arrays as values. The anonymous array is a triplet of a CPAN::Mirrored::By object, a ping time, and the epoch time for the measurement.
seen
The callback subroutine gets the CPAN::Mirrored::By object, the ping time, and measurement time (the same things in the seen hashref) as arguments. find_best_continents doesn't care what the callback does and ignores the return value.
Andreas Koenig <andk@cpan.org>, David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>, brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>
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