On Thursday 19 June 2008 08:27:05 pm Peter Poeml wrote:
Hi Rajko,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:43:17PM -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:57:12 pm ab wrote:
i just recently discovered that some older 10.2 box is completely out of sync as the updates/patches repository it got subscribed to during install time back then is only having patches from year 2007.
this is total madness. somebody gotta keep this list clean and only distributing reliable and current mirrors.
It is redirector problem if you use http://download.opensuse.org that we can't do much about, just complain as you did, or use some dependable mirror directly, as I do.
10.2 did not use download.opensuse.org infrastructure; it used hardcoded mirrors. (10.2 was the last release to do that.) No redirector involved.
It was so long ago that I have forgotten exact method :-)
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. 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. ...
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.
Thanks, Peter
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