Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (324 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> On Friday 26 June 2009 17:48:46 Koushik Nundy wrote:
>   
> > [...]
> >  This is because repos hosted close by are
> > usually faster.(eg, our college GLUG server has a packman mirror,
> > which is now under maintainence, so i'm not giving the link).
> >     
>
> Note that the package management stack in openSUSE 11.2 will use the aria2c 
> backend (search for a recent blog post by Duncan Mac-Vicar) and this one 
> recognizes the quality of mirrors and will then only use "good" mirrors.  So, 
> after some time, it should prefer your best mirror - and therefore no need to 
> explicitly set mirrors.  It's even better with using the download structure 
> since it will use a fallback if one mirror is not available...
>
> Andreas
>   
Try http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/507 as a start and there
are further updates.
Regards
Dave P
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