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Re: [opensuse-factory] non-oss software on our media?
- From: "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:19:29 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0810010201110.26326@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wednesday 2008-10-01 at 00:24 +0200, Peter Poeml wrote:
[ did/does the redirector fail on release date? ]
I should comment that there is a feeling that the redirector fails after the opensuse release. A feeling, because of comments of people having problems, and the usual solution we give is to try specifying a fixed mirror instead.
It is a feeling, no hard data. We don't have that.
For myself, I never install during the week of the release. I always upgrade, I don't usually install fresh, so I prefer to wait and read the problems others have ;-)
But, a redirector failure during an upgrade can be more dangerous than for other people, because we always have more packages than those provided on the DVD. It's one more reason I strongly dislike not having the non-oss software on the same dvd or on an extra cd. I even would prefer a double dvd distro :-p
True.
Cute!
I haven't read it complete (I stopped when it looked to technical for night reading ;-) ), but looks very interesting. This is working now?
Absolutely.
- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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On Wednesday 2008-10-01 at 00:24 +0200, Peter Poeml wrote:
Hi Alberto,
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:14:57PM -0500, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
[ did/does the redirector fail on release date? ]
I should comment that there is a feeling that the redirector fails after the opensuse release. A feeling, because of comments of people having problems, and the usual solution we give is to try specifying a fixed mirror instead.
It is a feeling, no hard data. We don't have that.
For myself, I never install during the week of the release. I always upgrade, I don't usually install fresh, so I prefer to wait and read the problems others have ;-)
But, a redirector failure during an upgrade can be more dangerous than for other people, because we always have more packages than those provided on the DVD. It's one more reason I strongly dislike not having the non-oss software on the same dvd or on an extra cd. I even would prefer a double dvd distro :-p
However: I actually remember now, while browsing the logs of the time,
that our mirror surveillance had a bug during 11.0 release time :-(
which caused failing mirrors to go unnoticed for a few days. A bug that
was already fixed, sneaked back in by updating a package from the
buildservice, that still hadn't been rebuilt after a day :(
This might be the cause of what you have been seeing.
Such a bug hits harder when there is exactly one mirror in a country.
Anyway, this rather proves your point about online accessess during
installation. There will always be something wrong, in a complex system
of dozens of mirrors.
True.
This is exactly why I mandate download failover for libzypp: See
http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover
Cute!
I haven't read it complete (I stopped when it looked to technical for night reading ;-) ), but looks very interesting. This is working now?
My point is that we need to deal with this kind of problem *not only*
during install time. The problem is largely the same when anyone wants
to update their running system. However, a failure during install time
is clearly more fatal.
Absolutely.
- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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