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[Bug 255872] Some redirect mirrirs for download.opensuse.org don't seem to be up to date.
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  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:41:56 -0600 (MDT)
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=255872


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------- Comment #2 from poeml@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-03-20 04:41 MST -------
Ah, 32bit-*-*.x86_64.pat is referenced in the file
inst-source/suse/setup/descr/patterns.

Checking the mirror list for the file with
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/setup/descr/patterns?mirrorlist
I find 3 out of 16 mirrors with an outdated "pattern" file referencing
a *.pat file which doesn't exist anymore (32bit-10.2-147.x86_64.pat).
The thing is that the redirector (or rather, the scanner) has no way of
finding out whether a pattern file on a mirror is up to date or not.

This still should not lead to problems because redirection is "sticky"
to particular mirrors for 30 minutes, _but_
1) if that time has passed, or
2) if the pattern file is being cached locally,
download.opensuse.org could later redirect to a different mirror which
might not have the referenced file.

(But the redirector _always_ checks for existance of a file on a given
mirror before redirecting to it, so if _any_ mirror still has the file
it will be used. But this does only happen if the file exists locally on
download.opensuse.org, because we don't redirect for non-existing files.
Thus, it doesn't help in this case.)

Christoph and I had the idea to generally exclude files from redirecting
which have no digits in the filename -- and thus are not "versioned".
Either we do that, or we should not redirect for "pattern" files.

There is also a file named "packages" which contains data changing with
package updates. Problem is, "packages" is a pretty large file (16MB).
Maybe we want to limit the redirection for this file only for Factory,
where it changes frequently.


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