I usually don't bother with announcing new mirrors, they're not
happening that frequently, but this week takes the biscuit.
Four new Chinese mirrors in as many days.
I am happy to announce four new openSUSE mirrors in China:
eScience Center, Nanjing University
Harbin Institute of Technology LUG
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Network
Southern University of Science and Technology.
Many thanks for volunteering your time and resources!
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Per Jessen, Zürich (1.4°C)
openSUSE mirror manager.
Hello.
My current "zypper dup" is kinda slow.
It fetches it's stuff from downloadcontent.opensuse.org - according to
tcpdump.
Abrufen: chromium-89.0.4389.72-lp152.2.77.1.x86_64.rpm
........<84%>===[/ (271,2 KiB/s)]
It goes down to 15 KiB/s and it downloads this chromium now since ~10min
and is very slowly.
Anyone else?
Alex
Hello Mirror admins
I did receive a complain that http://packman.inode.at/ is now returning
403. Is there any plan to fix it?
I also see that inode.at is being redirected to magenta.at perhaps it's
related.
Thank you
Lubos
(Note: this email was sent weeks ago, but it looks it didn't come trough).
Hi all,
As part of improvements to download.opensuse.org experience, currently new pilot service is available for using with zypper.
https://mirrorcache.opensuse.org
Its primary task is to redirect zypper requests to a mirror in client's country, similar to what MirrorBrain project does.
You can try to replace in /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo
http://download.opensuse.org
with
http://mirrorcache.opensuse.org
or
https://mirrorcache.opensuse.org
If you are in Europe or America, the best experience is expected with these addresses:
mirrorcache-eu.opensuse.org<https://mirrorcache.opensuse.org> (Europe)
mirrorcache-na.opensuse.org<https://mirrorcache.opensuse.org> (North America)
Since it is still a pilot, the service comes without any guarantee or obligations.
Reasons to try it may have those who:
- live in North America and don't want to be redirected to send cross-continent requests when possible;
- want to stick to https connection (mirrorcache will try to find a mirror in the same country, which supports https);
- are on ipv4-only or ipv6-only connection (mirrorcache will try to find a mirror which supports ipv4 or ipv6, depending on the request's connection);
- redirection from d.o.o leads to a mirror, which actually doesn't have the requested file (it is rare, but can happen);
- want to try hosting a mirrorcache instance for own location (e.g. organization, country or continent) and enjoy fast and reliable redirection. (with very modest disk space / HW requirements).
Additional reasons may have those who:
- want to help with improving d.o.o experience and provide feedback;
- are interested in mirror management, for which admin's UI is available, and non-admin UI is planned (so a user can add and manage own mirror without global admin rights);
https://mirrorcache.opensuse.org/app/server
(login using UI menu and ask me for admin rights if you want to use it or see more advanced controls, like job details).
- need some related functionality: it is possible that it can be easily achievable with mirrorcache.
Further read about differences from MirrorBrain:
https://github.com/andrii-suse/MirrorCache/blob/master/doc/mb_compare.md
How caching works:
- caching happens on folder level, so e.g., when zypper tries to access file, unknown for mirrorcache - it will be redirected to d.o.o, then a background job will collect info about mirrors. Thereafter further requests to the same folder will be properly redirected to a mirror in the client's country, honoring http/https scheme and ipv4/ipv6 connection used:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrii-suse/MirrorCache/master/doc/flow.s…
- requests to remodata/repomd.xml are not cached, so zypper always gets the latest version of packages.
If you are interested in current source code
(most of architecture is stolen from OpenQA):
https://github.com/andrii-suse/MirrorCache
In case of questions or any feedback do not hesitate to contact me.
Regards,
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Andrii Nikitin <andrii.nikitin(a)suse.com>
DevOPS Automation and Build Service Engineer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5
90409 Nuremberg
Germany
(HRB 247165, AG München)
Managing Director: Felix Imendörffer
Hello Mirror admins,
this is a heads up that you can expect openSUSE Leap 15.3 Beta next
week. Scheduled date is Wed 24th Feb
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap
Please be aware that openSUSE Leap 15.3 has no longer "Ports"
subproject. So ppc64le, aarch64, and newly s390x are now part of Leap
15.3 itself.
Please make sure that the mirror setup is ready.
One more heads up: There is a new effort called openSUSE Step which is
addressing the ARMv7 availablility for openSUSE Leap.
https://news.opensuse.org/2021/02/11/opensuse-new-project-looks-to-build-sl…
Request is tracked here: https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/76231
Thank you very much in advance
--
Best regards
Lubos Kocman
Release Manager openSUSE Leap
SUSE LINUX, s.r.o.
Krizikova 148/34 tel: +49 173 5876850
186 00 Praha 8 http://www.suse.com
Czech Republic
