-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-10-02 00:19, grantksupport@operamail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014, at 02:31 PM, John Andersen wrote:
The machines are configured with http://download.opensuse.org, with ZYPP_ARIA2C=1, not (necessarily) with a given repo URL.
zypper's supposed to query the redirector links, and find/use a 'best' (by some criterion) repo.
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I'm interested in the proper, standard function of zypper on openSUSE.
Well, for that, you should first remove the "ZYPP_ARIA2C=1", because it is non-standard. As I mentioned to you on another list, it was something they tried years ago, I think before the redirector was set up. An experiment (it is a hidden setting, as you can see, not on a configuration file).
In general, when repos are 'up', it works fine. It does NOT recover well, or at all, when an individual repo fails for whatever reason.
Yes, there is no local failover method - except what MirrorBrain does, server side. I think that aria2c, used with zypper, was not working right, so the default is not use it, but curl.
I've never been comfortable running anything from @openSUSE dev (!'home') repros, because the existance of those depends on the whim of that particular developer. ... In any case, it's irrelevant. How zypper fails/recovers should have absolutely no dependency on which repo it's failing on.
It has, in a way: home repos are simply removed by their owners any time they wish and without telling any one. They are private playgrounds, they can do whatever they wish. More or less. If zypper is configured to query a particular repo and it fails, you can not failover to another repository. They could add to zypper code to switch to an alternative URL for the SAME repository, never for another one. That's completely impossible. So, if a particular home repo disappears you have to manually choose an adequate replacement. That's intentional and I don't expect it to change (hint: vendor stickiness). - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQsi7oACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VPxACeOaeNAht6yGXLsccNZwPJohvs wR0AnRBrU33FEbD4PejC5ur2gmZSbhuC =/o1o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org