-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Benji Weber wrote:
The redirector is causing problems again. Now with installation for many users.
Some of the mirrors are broken or under heavy load, but the redirector is still redirecting people to those mirrors. This coupled with the fact that the openSUSE installer now selects "use online repositories" by default (a good thing) means that many people are experiencing failed installations. [...]
And as a side note: most US mirrors listed on the wiki [1] are
incomplete again (we already had this when 10.2 came out):
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/
ok, seems to have it now, was empty yesterday
ftp://mirror.colorado.edu/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/
ok, was empty yesterday
ftp://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/
ok, but frequently errors out with timeouts, was empty yesterday
ftp://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/
empty
ftp://mirror.nyi.net/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/
ok
http://opensuse.berkeley.edu/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/
empty (404)
[1]http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version#USA
I swear I did check yesterday evening because someone located in the US
asked for help as he couldn't add the 10.3 oss repository using
download.o.o, and mirror.nyi.net was the only one that actually had the
files (original error was with tds.net, and I think I didn't check
colorado.edu).
Well, there are still 2 bad mirrors left, and yesterday it was at least
4 broken mirrors (unless I was too tired and did something stupid ^^).
Today, 5 days after the official release, and more than a week after the
mirrors could start syncing, this still means having a 33% chance of
hitting a broken mirror (with the consequences explained in Benjamin's
mail).
We know how it goes when a release comes out: lots and lots of people
jump on it, eagerly waiting to download and try it out.
Which means that it is very important in terms of visibility and having
good reviews (which isn't really the case for 10.3, but that's a
somewhat broader topic as the redirector and broken mirrors aren't the
only reasons) that the mirrors are available and fully synced as soon as
the official release is published.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but since 10.2 the sync-out to mirrors is much
better prepared in conjunction with the mirror admins. It just doesn't
seem to work for US mirrors.
For 11.0, I think it would be better not to add the US mirrors in the
redirector (if that's possible per subdir) at release time -- it's
better to redirect users in the US to fast, reliable and fully synced
servers in Europe (*.de, skynet, belnet) than broken ones in the US --
and then check the mirrors listed above and only add them when they're
complete.
Would something like that even be possible with the redirector (list of
mirrors per subdir (/10.3/ or /11.0/) instead of global) ?
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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