https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284617 User poeml@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284617#c8 --- Comment #8 from Peter Poeml <poeml@novell.com> 2008-10-02 11:42:18 MDT --- I'm still meditating whether to reopen this bug. Anyway, short heads-up on the status quo: We have an new, alternative, experimental media handler in libzypp which allows accessing multiple mirrors in parallel and do automatical failover. There are some interesting things that can be done with that. Unfortunately, it is difficult to play with libzypp since it needs recompilations for each change, but we could have a wrapper that's called by libzypp, which could change the downloaded metalink on the fly and add mirrors to it. The wrapper would then call the actual download program. This is a way how setting preferred mirrors can achieved today. It also allows to add a local mirror to the list that isn't publicly reachable. That should give all the flexibility that is needed. In the end, zypper and yast should have an interface to do such configuration of course. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.