Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Carlos,

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:19:29AM +0200, Carlos E. R. 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 

We know that it didn't fail, but we do know that mirrors fail.

That you got the impression is caused by the intransparency of the process.
I just created a feature request to improve on this:
https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305320

> problems, and the usual solution we give is to try specifying a 
> fixed mirror instead.

Much better would be to tell us about problems with failing mirrors.
This is best done by contacting ftpadmin at suse dot de.

> 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 ;-)

I did installs during the release days myself :-)

Worked fine, with the exception that one German mirror had (firewall)
connection issues that lead to connection hangs which wasn't exactly
easy to debug, which is why I created the above mentioned feature
request.

Yes, it always bothers me when I find that nobody else is able to notify
me about problems (that hit nearly everybody in Germany), and they are
not reported or solved until I run into them myself. Therefore, we need
to make this more transparent, to enable users to report problems.

Peter
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