Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (12 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Anthony,

Am Thursday 21 September 2006 01:35 schrieb Anthony L. Bryan:
> I thought you might be interested in the Metalinks for openSUSE, which are
> automatically generated by one of your mirrors (http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/)
> at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/.

Right, this is indeed interessting.

> Metalinks are really useful for large files like ISOs and contain all
> mirror and p2p locations along with checksums and other metadata. I've
> attached one (edited, doesn't contain all mirrors), it's an XML file and is
> pretty self explanatory, but here's a good description:

maybe also for providing lists of our inst-source tree mirrors.
Good to know that there exist already something like a standard, we may can 
reuse (means supporting) it in YaST / linuxrc / build service.

However, I would prefer when we can revert the links in the wiki download 
pages, because it does make the download tables way more complicate for now 
and almost nobody have a metalink supporting application installed. 

Do you have any GUI application already supporting it ?
Do you have a defined mimetype for it ?

In this way, we could prepare a package for 10.2 and supporting it directly.

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH,  Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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