Hi again Peter,
Yes, the mirror situation in the US isn't very good.
Hm, are you from the US at all?? Email address looks more like Italy. (I may blindly have assumed you were from the US because I saw quite some complaints from there recently.) Yes, I live in US right now and I was in US when I downloaded/installed 11.0. My address is .it because I'm Italian. :-)
Well, in Italy there is only garr.it, but that one seems to work pretty fine most of the time, does it? It has some problems sometimes, but every mirror has. Of course it is possible that it was overloaded on the release day.
Garr.it works pretty good indeed. It is based on the university networks, and I had no real problems with it when I was in Italy.
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.
Well, bugs happen. If it was a bug, it is in the end less serious because it was fixed.
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.
This is exactly why I mandate download failover for libzypp: See http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover
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.
I fully agree. Thank you for the link about the failover feature. Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org