Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Luiz,

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:05:06PM -0300, ¡ElCheVive! wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Talking about the redirector, for the released version, not the factory one:
>
> You, or someone, added US repos as in the same country for the Latin
> America (I asked it) as the connections from south america to other
> continents are made throught US. 

Yes, I remember.

> But there is a Brazilian mirror who
> appear later and its now showed as in the same continent as you can
> see below:

Yes. I'm aware of this problem, this is a disadvantage of the current
implementation of the "override" functionality. We have three choices at
this time:
1) Leave it as is
2) Remove the override
3) Implement a better override, that I have already pictured here:
   
https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/tools/download-redirector-v2/TODO
   (first thing listed under "Improvements")

> Filename: distribution/11.0/repo/oss/EULA.txt
> Client IP address: 201.86.154.16
> Found 81 mirrors: 7 country, 1 region, 60 elsewhere
> Mirrors in the same country (us):
>
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/EULA.txt
> (score 20)
> [...]
> http://mirrors.xmission.com/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/EULA.txt
> (score 50)
>
> Mirrors in the same continent (SA):
>
> http://200.221.9.37/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/EULA.txt (score 3)
>
> Mirrors in the rest of the world:
>
> [...]
> http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/EULA.txt
> (score 100)
>
> What I'm asking you (or who manage the redirector) is to put the US
> mirrors in the same continent for all Latin America (with high
> scores), and in case a national mirror appears it will be choosen as
> it will be on the same country.

That would be the result of 3).

Now, I just need to get around and implement this.
It's sitting in the TODO file since a long time :(
If anyone wants to help...

Peter
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