On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 13:41 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
What factory link?:
Heh, fair point: as TW is not really supposed to make USE of the update repository (it's a rolling release, updates go into the main tree, it is actually also just abstracted away on the server... the 'real' repository is located at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Update/standard... (which you should find on some mirrors too). But expect this repository to remain empty.. whenever this is NOT empty, it means we're struggling with terrible issues on Tumbleweed and can't publish a new snapshot.
MC ftp cannot chdir to "/ftp://download.opensuse.org". AFAICT mirrorbrain presumes people use only zypper or yast and only in graphical.target, and doesn't like MC users running in multi-user.target fetching individual packages, directory content listings, package timestamps, or new .repo files from it. Thus AFAIK going to individual mirrors is required to get these things without X running. Do we have some other choice?
zypper works in text mode only (it doesn't have any relation to graphical.target). and mirrorbrain doesn't know about it.
My point was about lack of decent HTTP access when running without X.
lynx, w3m, links... plenty of web 'browsers' in Terminal mode available.
X running or not running is not the criteria.. you want to use an FTP client - in this case, yes, you need to connect to an FTP mirror. You can be classified an advanced user and should thus be able to use the /factory links as well (it IS the same.. really.. there is no difference between Factory and Tumbleweed)
I don't believe I have any problem with links that actually exist. When I goto ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/update in MC, neither tumbleweed nor factory appear along with the numbered release version directories, same as when I go to http://download.opensuse.org/update or http://download.opensuse.org/update/ in a web browser.
Yes.. see above.
I'll see if we can add this as a soft symlink there instead of a
redirect on download.o.o...
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