From: Francis Giannaros <francisg@gmail.com>

On Thursday 15 February 2007 20:19:18 albryan@comcast.net wrote:

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.metalinks were ready for 10.3 Alpha1 ISOs at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/ as soon as the mirrors synced. Note, these .metalinks do not yet contain repair information. (Only full file checksums - if someone wants to hack the perl script to include repair info, let me know!)

.metalinks (for 10.2 and 10.3 Alpha1, i386 so far but x86_64 in a few minutes) with repair information are at:

http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html#opensuse

Nice stuff. I just did a download of the 5 CDs and it went wonderfully.

Hopefully this time round we/openSUSE can be making our own metalinks, too. I might edit the development release page in a bit to update it with the new table (like the released version has) which is prettier.

Great, thats good to hear! If the .metalinks with repair info & aria2 0.10.1+ are used, there should never be an error in the finished files (if there is, its a bug in the program and we need to know about it). That alone makes it preferable to http/ftp downloads which might have errors. If openSUSE makes it's own metalinks, that would be great. Bouncer and RoPkg::Metalink are options, but it might be simpler just to use the command line tools (http://metalinks.sourceforge.net/) since the ISOs aren't updated constantly. If you want to have the chunk checksums/repair info in there, you need the files locally to scan (or I guess running on a mirror that has the files). Anything I can do to help, let me know! I'm interested in other people's comments on how we can improve the download process too. -- (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org