Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (193 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:21:14PM +0200, jdd sur free wrote:
> Christoph Thiel wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >the attached mail just went out to our mirror admins. In case you are
> >mirroring ftp.openSUSE.org and didn't get this email, contact me off-list.
> 
> 1) just as a notice: many mirrors have a "ftp" in they name, even if 
> they feed as http. This is misleading. think of making any alias type 
> to http (in fact anything but "ftp"), and quote in red what you said 
> "we only redirect http mirrors"

We are only redirector on HTTP-basis. I.e. users request a file via HTTP, so
we throw them at a HTTP-Server (regardless of the hostname of the mirror.)


> 2) don't you think download... (source and update) should be hard coded in
> yast (anybody can stop them if needed, no need to delete them)
> 
> so most installs whould work out of the box :-)

We have been considering this...


> 3) I have regular problems with at least one mirror (lea), probably
> overcharged - it should be clear how to report such problem (minor, but
> boring)

Which mirror are you refering to? Did you get redirected to it by
download.openSUSE.org?


Best,
Christoph
-- 
Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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