http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/ is *NOT* rsync-able. I need a repo that can be rsync'd from. Thanks, Toni On Thrusay 27 November 2008 08:40 am Rajko M. wrote

On Thursday 27 November 2008 06:42:49 am Toni Harbaugh-Blackford

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So if ftp5.gwdg.de isn't valid, which publically rsync-able 11.1--RC1 mirrors *are* valid? How do you tell if a 'repo' mirror is valid?

Thanks, Toni

Use http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/ and when RC1 is available there, than it is released, as it is right now.

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Peter- On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 at 3:19 pm, Peter Poeml wrote:

Hi Toni,

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:44:43AM -0500, Toni Harbaugh-Blackford wrote:

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http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/

is *NOT* rsync-able. I need a repo that can be rsync'd from.

Thanks, Toni

For that, you can use

rsync://rsync.opensuse.org/opensuse-full/opensuse/distribution/11.1-RC1/r epo/

or a public mirror that offers rsync service.

Be aware that rsync.opensuse.org may be quite loaded and is traffic shaped during the day, and has a limit on the number of rsync connections. So another public mirror may be preferrable. YMMV. So be considerate on don't stress the server more than necessary. There are also quite some mirrors depending on it.

But out of interest, what makes the rsyncable repo a requirement to you?

I do a lot of work with clusters of machines that are headless and cdrom-less. Most of these boxes are on private networks, so the network installs go more quickly when done from a local repository. I also usually need items that are not included in the DVDs, so it is just easier to pull everything down and then I have all that I need. Another reason I like to use a local repository has more to do with Factory than RC releases. I often encounter installation bugs during the early phases of a release that I need to reproduce for bugzilla. Since Factory moves quickly, using a local repository gives me time to redo installs without Factory changing underneath of me. Thanks, Toni

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On 2008/11/28 16:10 (GMT+0100) Peter Poeml composed:

I see, yes, makes sense. Let me know if the above rsync URL doesn't work or if you need anything else.

How about a URL that works for FTP? When there's a version or repetitive download error, I try to find out the latest available package with mc's built in ftp, and if appropriate, with mc copy to the zypper or smart download dir. That doesn't work with download.opensuse.org. Instead I have to use another puter with working X, open a web browser, open download.opensuse.org, wget the target file(s), then copy the file(s) to the host that actually needs it/them. -- "Love is not easily angered. Love does not demand its own way." 1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Hi, On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Hans Witvliet wrote:

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 21:19 +0100, Peter Poeml wrote:

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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:44:43AM -0500, Toni Harbaugh-Blackford wrote:

...

...

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/

is *NOT* rsync-able. I need a repo that can be rsync'd from.

...

For that, you can use rsync://rsync.opensuse.org/opensuse-full/opensuse/distribution/11.1-RC1/repo/ or a public mirror that offers rsync service.

Be aware that rsync.opensuse.org may be quite loaded and is traffic shaped during the day, and has a limit on the number of rsync connections. So another public mirror may be preferrable. YMMV. So be considerate on don't stress the server more than necessary. There are also quite some mirrors depending on it.

But out of interest, what makes the rsyncable repo a requirement to you?

He is not the only one. I have about a hundred machines, both physical and virtual that i install from a local install-server. As our network is completely seperated from Internet, i had to make a local install-server, and for the "add-on" repositories, i have a local copy of ftp5,gwdg.de.

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From what i remember, Eberhard told me that even after a new release there was allways lot of bandwith still unused. No need to sqeeze bandwith on rsync (as required by some other mirrors)

Hence i mirror from gwdg, instead of rsync.opensuse.org.

The final release will bring a network saturation at ftp5.gwdg.de I guess (1 GBit/sec), but neither any beta nor rc1 did. The last saturation was friday/saturday last week during the daytime (not at night) because a new version of opensource-dvd was released (www.opensource-dvd.de - 3.8 GB open source software for Micro$oft systems). The last time before that was in second half of june for just one or two daytimes, release of OpenSUSE-11.0. Viele Grüße Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) -- Eberhard Mönkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoenke@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumair Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 -------------------------------------------------------------------------