Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (102 mails)

[Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

PGNet wrote:
> using,
>
>   zypper dup
>
> with, e.g., a repo @,
>
>   
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1
>
> i understand the redirectors 'pick' a mirror for me.
>
> occassionally, a really slow mirror is picked, e.g.,
>
>   Retrieving: 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/i586/libkdecore4-devel-4.2.1-106.1.i586.rpm
> [done (3.6 K/s)]
>
> poking along @ just a few K/s ...
>
> is is possible to find/specify "fastest mirror" in zypper?  i'm
> looking for functionality similar to that in yum,
>
>   http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/FastestMirror
>
> thanks.

In 11.1 the mirror is chosen by the redirector, which tries to give the
fastest one but this is not always true.

openSUSE Factory(what will be 11.2) uses metalinks, and also supports
mirror profiling, that is, it can record the perfomance of mirrors for
your specific case and feed that information on the next download,
complementing the information the download redirector gives to you.

Also 11.2 (Factory) has robust mirror failover.

-- 
Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - Engineering Manager, YaST
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)

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