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Hi, For the last week or so, perhaps a bit longer, my attempts to branch and work on any OBS package has been hampered by the extremely slow download speeds of files via the API. For example, trying to `osc bco openblas`, I can barely download the patch and spec files (at around 10-20 KiB/s!!!) whereas the downloading of the source tarball itself proceeds at similar snail's pace for a bit and eventually ends with something like:
Connection broken: IncompleteRead(6935464 bytes read, 17469448 more expected)
thus making my working dir unusable. I thought this may have been some temporary network issue on my side, but apparently not: I can still `zypper dup` my TW system at ~10 MiB/s consistently, so eventually I came around to the idea that API based downloads when using osc are perhaps hitting a very slow mirror (I have been in India during this time, if that helps). Is there a way to avoid the auto-detection of mirrors for API downloads and specify a particular mirror to use instead? Or, any other workaround to resume branching and working on packages involving large-ish source tarballs — it seems downloading anything beyond a couple of MiB is impossible right now? Thanks in advance. -- Atri