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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. http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in http://planet-india.randomink.org http://kknundy.blogspot.com http://en.opensuse.org/ http://twitter.com/kknundy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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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? -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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2009/6/26 Koushik Nundy
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?=) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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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, - -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.geeko.jp/author/heliosreds _/_/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpE+VEACgkQXnHIfHE6+z10VwCcCyAcvyVZiP0UWk1XjGZDCUfu N+oAn2AWQRIrnlB/TSwpr7t8BRRuLrpb =WLOO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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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, Director openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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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
Try http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/507 as a start and there are further updates. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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Andreas Jaeger
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Bryen M Yunashko
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Dave Plater
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Koushik Nundy
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Satoru Matsumoto
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Александр Мелентьев