Hi Rajko, On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:31:49PM -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
I'm tired of redirector and I don't want to deal with that for now.
I would be *very* interested in hearing the cause which makes you tired of it. What are your problems with it?
(If you still think you have problems with it, that is.)
I'll see with 11.0 how it works, but basic problem was that some server did not catch up with Factory and often there was missing file breaking update.
Cave: you are mixing two things it seems -- "11.0" and "catch up with Factory" are two things. While catching up with Factory you can see a lot of problems, ranging from innovative breakage of the metadata, to inconsistencies of the metadata during its update/replacement. Both of which doesn't have much to do with the method of the distribution (download redirector). The main thing to achieve is to get a consistent metadata set of *Factory* onto the download server (download.opensuse.org). The rest is taken care of by the redirector. If the redirector wasn't able to do this, there'd be a lot of problems with the update trees and the buildservice repositories trees. (Both also very short-lived.)
If I repeated zypper command I would get same mirror, and the update will fail on the same spot, but that is mentioned in article http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover and it is designed behavior in 10.3 , but it can annoying at the times.
Yes.
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If you are interested, you might want to read http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover and let us know what you think about the proposal. Your feedback would be valuable.
OK. The only thing that I can see right now is mentioned in: Example scenarios Server breakage: (redirector) New installation
Client that can use failover mirrors can have list of mirrors already included out of the box, so if redirector is offline in the moment of installation, that list can be used. It can be obsolete, but if client has ability to switch to another mirror it will find good one in the list.
Yes, that would be one way to deal with the "Internet gone fishing" or "Redirector gone fishing" situation during installation. Feel free to add it to the wiki page. Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development