Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

> Could you please elaborate what exactly you mean with "our redirector
> fails ... quite dramatically at every release"?
>
> I would be very interested in details.

I'm sorry for my delayed answer. I have noticed your question only now.

My point about the redirector is quite simple. Since when it was
introduced, it had problems, especially under high load, which means
immediately after a new openSUSE release.
How this is related to this discussion? Again, it is simple. When 11.0
was released, it was impossible to access to the download site and the
automatically added repositories were not working because the redirector
was overloaded and timing out the connection.

As a consequence, moving the non-OSS software mentioned in this thread
to a non-OSS repository and asking the user if he wants to add it at
installation time will lead to the following problem: a lot of people
will download openSUSE 11.1, will install it and due to the overload it
won't be able to use the repository at the time of installation. The
consequence of this will be a lot of complaints, and potentially of some
"bad press", which is what seems to worry Novell more.

I hope I clarified.

With kind regards,
Alberto

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