On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 8:05 AM Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> wrote:
Neal Gompa wrote:
This looks very cool, but I'm confused why we would do this instead of using MirrorManager2[1] and collaborating on that project?
I agree it sounds cool, but I remain confused about the purpose of mirrorcache, as well as why the effort wasn't directed at mirrorbrain instead. MirrorBrain currently has only two real shortcomings - IPv6 and https support. Fixing these as well as other more or less imagined flaws with a bolt-on just sounds like a kludge to me.
The issue of clients in North America being redirected to other continents really only applies to the OBS repositories for which we simply don't have enough mirrors in the Americas. (one was recently been added in Uruguay though).
It definitely applies to openSUSE as a whole. I *rarely* get directed to an American mirror, I usually get something in Eastern Europe or Asia, which is frustrating because they often time out. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!