Updating Eclipse with a faster mirror

Having wasted a little time (and nearly fallen asleep several times) waiting for Eclipse to upgrade itself from 3.0 to 3.0.1 from the main Eclipse site I though there must be a better way.

From some docs I did the following:

• Created a file in you eclipse directory called "download-policy.xml"


• I made the contents

  
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  
  <update-policy>
  
          <url-map pattern="org.eclipse" 
  
                   url="http://mirror.pacific.net.au/eclipse/ ...
  
                        eclipse/updates/3.0/site.xml">
  
  </update-policy>
  
  

  
  

  Obviously you should set the url attribute to the mirror that your want to use
  

  
  


• In Window->Preferences->Install/Update->Update Policy I entered

  file:///c:/progs/eclipse/eclipse/download-policy.xml

  (put the path to the xml file you created in the url)
  


• Finally I performed an update of currently installed features as normal and found that the update downloaded from my selected mirror.