Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (149 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter!

Dňa Tuesday 30 September 2008 02:10:37 Peter Poeml ste napísal:
> Hi,
>
> would it be possible to show the mirror which is accessed when
> downloading a package?
>
> (Technically, the download client is following redirects and the actualy
> URL needs to be shown, not just the first URL that was contacted but
> that redirected to another URL)
>
> It is a long-standing problem that this information is lacking and it
> makes debugging and optimizing much harder than necessary, because this
> information is only available deeply buried in some logfile.
>
> We need this information for two reasons:
>
> 1)
> Debugging - to see which URL was accessed when something goes wrong,
> like a mirror timing out. For example, Whenever a mirror returns
> garbage, it takes a lot of additional time to find out which one,
> because all reports are lacking the critical detail, and it is usually
> hard to find it out later.
>
> 2)
> Optimizing the load sharing between different mirrors - to distinguish
> slow mirrors from fast ones. For example, I am very much in need of
> information about the situation in the US, but even though people in the
> US run installations for me and are willing to send me logs, I can't get
> this information.

Do you want the information in the log or to be shown in e.g. zypper -vvv ?

And of course, you will not like this ;-) - I suggest to either open a bug 
report or file a feature request (openSUSE.org one). Mail here will almost 
certainly get lost.

Stano
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