I seem to recall that they have some Cisco device (IronPort, I think).
I suspected that it was the problem I had before related to that at
some time in the past. So I tried the zypper environment variable that
said to use curl instead of aria2c (or whatever it is called) to get
the items. Getting a single file from multiple hosts did not work well
with the Cisco device. But that seems not to have any effect. I do not
know if it is even still implemented. I suspect not.
We are trying to do system updates. Some files are rather small. So
even waiting for the Cisco thing to get the whole thing should still
go fast. But I think there are options in the http protocol that
zypper uses that the Cisco device does not support. At least aria2c
uses them. And if the flag to use curl as the mechanism is no longer
recognized, the problem will remain.
My memory on this is foggy. It was a couple years ago when I went
through this in my office (not the same one). IIRC, the final solution
was to let my system bypass the Cisco device. Since it has been
working for me I had almost forgotten about it.
I googled my previous issue with this and saw that I could run the
aria2c program to get an rpm to see it that was the problem. I no
longer seem to have aria2c installed. So perhaps zypper is now using
something else? Checking the binary, I see libcurl referenced. Some
libs I do not recognize, so I do not know if one of these might be the
successor to aria2c.
I would still like to know if zypper can still be told to use curl, it
it is not already.
BTW, the same thing happens in yast.
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Carlos E. R.
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On 2015-05-06 20:22, John Andersen wrote:
But didn't the thread start off by saying that this did not occur when using YAST, or did I imagine that?
No: «Mysteriously, when running zypper (or yast), downloading packages screeches to a near standstill.»
- -- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
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