Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday 2008-10-01 at 14:32 +0200, Peter Poeml wrote:

> 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

Ah! You propose that the actual mirror is displayed. Very good, that is 
needed.


> > 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.

But at the moment it is almost impossible to know what mirror we are using 
if redirected.



> > 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 :-)

But not upgrades ;-)


> 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.

Absolutely. That would help a lot.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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