Hi Rajko, On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:43:17PM -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:57:12 pm ab wrote:
i just recently discovered that some older 10.2 box is completely out of sync as the updates/patches repository it got subscribed to during install time back then is only having patches from year 2007.
this is total madness. somebody gotta keep this list clean and only distributing reliable and current mirrors.
It is redirector problem if you use http://download.opensuse.org that we can't do much about, just complain as you did, or use some dependable mirror directly, as I do.
10.2 did not use download.opensuse.org infrastructure; it used hardcoded mirrors. (10.2 was the last release to do that.) No redirector involved.
I'm tired of redirector and I don't want to deal with that for now.
I would be *very* interested in hearing the cause which makes you tired of it. What are your problems with it? (If you still think you have problems with it, that is.)
It needs improvements, like taking feedback from clients, but for that zypper and YaST Software Management have to be changed too, to give such feedback. Download errors, slow connection, missing packages, etc, than redirector will not slam user with the same broken mirror time and again.
Exactly, there are things that cannot be solved on the server side. Some things can only be done by clients. If you are interested, you might want to read http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover and let us know what you think about the proposal. Your feedback would be valuable. Thanks, Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development