Fraser_Bell wrote:
Actually, the problem is that Mirrorbrain, in our implementation, looks for a Mirror within the same country first, and chooses the "fastest" one of those.
That algorithm, of course, works just fine on your continent, since most of the countries there are a mere fraction the size of my own Province, much less my Country.
However, in North America, that is a "faulty" method, IMHO. Not sure if that can be addressed easily in Mirrorbrain.
Probably not, but it is also a matter of not enough mirrors. Canada has just three mirrors - in Toronto, Halifax and Winnipeg.
What I would like to see is an easy "simple click" method in Yast to pick a closer mirror or an alternate mirror when the default chosen mirror has a problem or is otherwise unsuitable. I would also love to see an additional easy flag or config in zypper to allow choice of another mirror if the Mirrorbrain-chosen mirror is not working well.
My current method is to manually test mirrors, then hard-code the "best" mirror in my repos list.
That works just fine, but is a little more convoluted and is not an easy thing for Linux or openSUSE newcomers to use.
Very true. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.3°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org