Can I make a proposal? If there was a page on the openSUSE site, to list some of the popular repositories for openSUSE distros it would really be helpful for people. I know that the webpin has got several links to repos, but if a proper list was there, we could add repos, mirrors, etc we know of. This is because repos hosted close by are usually faster.(eg, our college GLUG server has a packman mirror, which is now under maintainence, so i'm not giving the link). Also people can set up their repository list on Yast more easily.
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 21:18 +0530, Koushik Nundy wrote:
Can I make a proposal? If there was a page on the openSUSE site, to list some of the popular repositories for openSUSE distros it would really be helpful for people. I know that the webpin has got several links to repos, but if a proper list was there, we could add repos, mirrors, etc we know of. This is because repos hosted close by are usually faster.(eg, our college GLUG server has a packman mirror, which is now under maintainence, so i'm not giving the link). Also people can set up their repository list on Yast more easily.
-- Koushik Kumar Nundy B.Tech, ECE Final year Journalist, GNU/Linux Users' Group openSuse Ambassador NIT Durgapur India.
Is the Community Repositories feature in Yast Software Repositories module not sufficient? Are we missing some important items there?
2009/6/26 Koushik Nundy kknundy@gmail.com:
If there was a page on the openSUSE site, to list some of the popular repositories for openSUSE distros it would really be helpful for people.
I wonder why http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories is not satisfactory for you?=)
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Koushik Nundy wrote:
Can I make a proposal? If there was a page on the openSUSE site, to list some of the popular repositories for openSUSE distros it would really be helpful for people. I know that the webpin has got several links to repos, but if a proper list was there, we could add repos, mirrors, etc we know of. This is because repos hosted close by are usually faster.(eg, our college GLUG server has a packman mirror, which is now under maintainence, so i'm not giving the link). Also people can set up their repository list on Yast more easily.
Is it what you want ? http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories
Best,
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On Friday 26 June 2009 17:48:46 Koushik Nundy wrote:
[...] This is because repos hosted close by are usually faster.(eg, our college GLUG server has a packman mirror, which is now under maintainence, so i'm not giving the link).
Note that the package management stack in openSUSE 11.2 will use the aria2c backend (search for a recent blog post by Duncan Mac-Vicar) and this one recognizes the quality of mirrors and will then only use "good" mirrors. So, after some time, it should prefer your best mirror - and therefore no need to explicitly set mirrors. It's even better with using the download structure since it will use a fallback if one mirror is not available...
Andreas
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Friday 26 June 2009 17:48:46 Koushik Nundy wrote:
[...] This is because repos hosted close by are usually faster.(eg, our college GLUG server has a packman mirror, which is now under maintainence, so i'm not giving the link).
Note that the package management stack in openSUSE 11.2 will use the aria2c backend (search for a recent blog post by Duncan Mac-Vicar) and this one recognizes the quality of mirrors and will then only use "good" mirrors. So, after some time, it should prefer your best mirror - and therefore no need to explicitly set mirrors. It's even better with using the download structure since it will use a fallback if one mirror is not available...
Andreas
Try http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/507 as a start and there are further updates. Regards Dave P
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