Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1920 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 04 October 2008 13:58:29 Mark Goldstein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using OpenSUSE 11.0, KDE3.
>
> In older versions it was possible to chose servers for SW
> download/update (Yast suggested some based on "proximity", but you
> could chose another server.
> Currently it looks like server is selected automatically.
>
> I have persistent problem with the server for build service Mozilla:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0.
> I could see that I'm redirected to
> ftp://dispenser.yandex.net/opensuse/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0
> and YaST  times out consistently on that server. So I have to download
> manually from different mirror.
>
> Is it still possible to chose a server or to blacklist specific server?

It's not possible to blacklist, but you're not forced to go through the 
download.opensuse.org redirector. In the YaST "repositories" module, you can 
add whatever server you want to use manually, just like before

Anders
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