Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (116 mails)

[Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:11:54PM +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 16:44:34 Michael E Brown wrote:
> > Mirrorlist functionality is a really useful capability. I dont see how
> > you could you could support millions of users without it. It allows you
> > to load balance between separate servers which may even have different
> > paths to the repo. It also enables you to do really cool things, like
> > have a cgi script that produces the mirror list. It can, for example,
> > return geographically-close mirror based on the users client IP.
> 
> Variable sustitution in urls looks really interesting. I will try to implement 
> that.
> 
> mirrorlist, why not handling it at the web server level?

Several reasons. 
   - In the current yum implementation, the client gets the mirror list
     and randomly chooses an entry from the list. 
   - It also will fail over down the list if there is any connection
     problem with the first server. 
   - The mirror list can list different servers that have the repo at
     their own path. 
   - Some people dont have administrative access to the web server to
     change the web server configuration to redirect.

The mirror list is simply a URL to a file containing a list of mirror
paths. Because it is a URL, it can easily be configured to point at a
cgi that outputs the list.
--
Michael
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx