Josef Wolf wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:49:28PM -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 09 March 2007 16:43, Josef Wolf wrote:
In 10.2, the mirror for online-updates is randomly choosen. There's no chance anymore to choose a specific mirror. I'd rather choose the same mirror for all of my boxes because I want the packages be cached by my big fat squd that is sitting between my boxes and the ISP. With this, the updates would be dwnloaded only once for the first box and all the other boxes would get the update smuch faster from the squid cache.
Why is in 10.2 no more chance to choose a specific mirror for online updates? Put in YaST Installation Source update repository, and it will be used.
But the very first update, which is done right after the first reboot on a fresh install, will pull huge amounts from some random (potentially slow) mirror, and all the patches end up a second/third/fourth/... time in my squid cache. They could be delivered pretty fast from my cache, but since every install chooses a different mirror, I end up mirroring _all_ existing mirrors in my squid. And my squid cache is not used at all, it is just filled up :-(
All this makes the installation procedure only slower and more tedious. Since I do installations from scratch often, this is a huge drawback for me.
I don't understand. What would be so bad if the user could choose a specific mirror at installation time? A random mirror could still be selected by default. But there should be a button "change mirror" or something. This was possible in older suse releases, and nobody complained. This is still possible in all the other distributions I know. Why was this button removed in newer suse releasaes? What's the rationale? My suggestion would be to have a script to rsync a particular mirror of your choice with your SQUID cache or use wget and download the whole mirror once and then have the wget script run once a day via cron to check for updates.
an idea but the commands used might need working on. Regards Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org