Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

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

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