Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (287 mails)

[Dirk Stoecker <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Dr. Peter Poeml wrote:

> * download.opensuse.org redirects (since recently) to the web frontend
>  on software.opensuse.org for requests to '/'. Requests to '/*' go to
>  the downlaod redirector. As far as availability of e.g. the update
>  repository and other repositories is concerned, it doesn't depend on
>  software.o.o.
>
>  The redirector depends on a mirror database server, but can live
>  without it for a certain period, until the network connection is
>  sufficiently congested so it becomes to slow to respond. The latter
>  effect can be mitigated somewhat by fallback mirrors to redirect to in
>  the error case (to be implemented).
>
>  Did we experience any availability problem since the current
>  redirector is in place (about March)? I can't remember of any outage
>  of the "over the weekend" kind...
>
>  I can assure you that I'm against all infrastructure changes which add
>  more dependencies than necessary :-)

Well, this setup has one problem I experienced.

For new packages the installation may fail, as meta files are up-to-date 
(from suse server directly), but the download is redirected to 
ftp5.gwdg.de (for me) and gwdg was not yet up-to-date. This can happy 
anytime, for everybody and every repository.

Can the redirector be dynamic and introduce a little grace interval 
(15-30 minutes I think) for new packages? In the grace interval the 
redirector should redirect to SUSE download server for packages also 
instead of mirror.

Ciao
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