Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (284 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 09 October 2007 06:52:50 wrote Marcus Rueckert:
> On 2007-10-09 02:10:10 +0100, Benji Weber wrote:
...
> > Sticky breaks installations, no sticky breaks general package
> > management - what is the solution? Can the redirector do better
> > checking on mirror availability and status? any thoughts? A solution
> > that can be achieved by only modifying d.o.o so that future 10.3
> > installations can go smoothly is obviously preferable.
>
> just a few first thoughts. i will think more about it:
>
> 1. the frequency for those checks would be too high to avoid the
> problem.
>
> 2. my first approach would be some history in the redirector.
>    if a client retries we know that the client requested the same file
>    again and send it to a different mirror.
>
>    the information could be stored in the same session structure as the
>    sticky mirror.

2. sounds like a good idea ... let's hear a comment from Peter about this next 
week.

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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