http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498875 User poeml@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498875#c6 --- Comment #6 from Peter Poeml <poeml@novell.com> 2009-04-28 10:07:14 MDT --- (In reply to comment #4)
BTW, keeping of a few old packages in repos is not a bad idea!
JFYI, that's implemented for Factory since one or two months. Packages are kept 3 days after they become obsolete. Since then, I haven't seen any reports anymore about updates that fail in the middle of things; so it seems to be effective! The price is that we need more space on the download server, and don't want to inflict the backlog of packages to the mirrors, and therefore only the download server itself has the old packages. In addition, this means that we cannot efficiently avoid redirects to "bad" mirrors for these packages, because they become deleted after some time, which we don't notice immediately. Thus, we depend on libzypp using aria2 to download these old packages, to be robust enough to fetch them from mirrors that still have them. Well, it seems to work... Ideally, powerpc.opensuse.org (the download server for the PPC factory) should do the same and keep old packages, but it's not really worth the effort to set this up for the few users. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.