Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:48:45PM +0100, Peter Poeml wrote:
> In the future, we plan a change in this regard. We will make the DVDs
> available more easily. They'll be visible on download.opensuse.org via
> HTTP, and the download server will know the mirrors that have the DVDs
> and redirect to them. Thus, the images will be much easier to find.

You may have seen it: Beta5 has been published :-) 
Including the DVDs.

(And, btw, also including PPC images this time.)

So now, download of the DVD images with the method described below is
fully supported.

Find them at http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta5/iso/

> Moreover, then you can use a metalink client which can *combine*
> BitTorrent download with HTTP/FTP download from mirrors. Thus, you'll
> have one method of downloading that always works, and gives best of both
> worlds. It'll work even when nobody is seeding, and you won't need to switch
> download client and method of downloading.
>
>
> All this works already for the other images - the planned change is that
> we'll make the Alpha/Beta DVDs available in the same way.
>
>
> What do you need to do / to know?
>
> I recommend to use aria2c, which is the most powerful metalink client.
> http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=aria2 
> It is a Factory package.
>
> The command that you run to download an image is as simple as:
> aria2c 
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta4/iso/openSUSE-11.1-Beta4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso
>
> aria2c will automatically use P2P and/or multiple mirrors, whatever is
> available, and make sure that the download arrives 100% correctly. It
> verifies the download via provided checksums and can automatically start
> seeding the verified bits.
>
> If you wonder how that works:
> The magic behind it is that aria2c will download an XML description
> which looks like this:
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta4/iso/openSUSE-11.1-Beta4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso.metalink
> If you look inside, you'll see a bittorrent link, checksums, all
> mirrors, segmented hashes, and even a PGP signature.
>
> aria2c is very robust against all sorts of failures.


Peter
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