apt-spy does not have ubuntu mirror listing

I am working on several patches to apt-spy so that it can parse the ubuntu wiki page that has the package mirrors. I've got a somewhat complete prototype in perl and I'm working to integrate that with the existing apt-spy package.

ubuntu needs to consider providing a mirrors list similar to what debian provides for this package to be of much use. Otherwise it requires a complete rewrite.

I second that. Not to meniton that list needs some updating.

Oh wow!

I just noticed this bug is 14 MONTHS old....

Uhh.. why not just pull the package from the archive. It's downright dangerous in it's current state.

Anybody home? Why is this package even available, it's not only useless, as the poster above commented, it's plainly dangerous.

Hi,

I've been asking around if it's possible to get https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors/ as an easily parseble format, however didn't get a response yet.

Until that's possible, I see two options:
a) somehow parse the html output
b) rewrite /var/lib/apt-spy/mirrors.txt in the package by hand.

Anyone volunteering?

Cheers,
    Stefan.

Open https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors in FireFox. Right Click>View Page Info>Links>Ctrl+A>Ctrl+C

vim /tmp/links
[paste from clipboard]
sed -i -e '/canonical/d' /tmp/links -e '/launchpad/d' /tmp/links

As stated 7 months ago..

"Uhh.. why not just pull the package from the archive? It's downright dangerous in it's current state."

"I am working on several patches to apt-spy so that it can parse the ubuntu wiki page that has the package mirrors."

It seems this idea has already been abandoned but I would just like to note that it seems incredibly insecure to grab apt sources from a wiki, even if a maliciously added repository wouldn't authenticate with pgp most users unfortunately ignore those errors and would install unathenticated packages anyways.

I've just filed bug #139016 to remove apt-spy from universe.

apt-spy is no longer in the Ubuntu repository for releases newer than feisty.

It seems now that Ubuntu provides a mirror list through http://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt. Is it enough to push back apt-spy in repository (with some modifications to retrieve the list of mirrors from this URL)? The only problem seems to be that mirros.ubuntu.com is regularly down.

It seems there's also a port for Ubuntu wrote in Ruby available here: https://github.com/lagged/apt-spy2. Not packaged and doesn't know what it worths.