On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote:
We should probably delay the redirection on download.openSUSE.org and have the user browse the local ftp tree and only redirect on file request, to make sure he can take all files that are available into account. ATM d.o.o redirects as early as possible, i.e. if you access http://d.o.o/somepath it will redirect you to a server that has the path. But that server might not have all the files that are actually available...
A very good idea. A failing redirected single-file request could get overcome with the "retry" button then if d.o.o does a round-robin redirection.
The inital usecase for d.o.o (when I did the first implementation) was to have a generic URL for the announcements and to point the installer (YaST) to. But it actually seems people try to browse the inst-sources with it -- and end up on mirrors that are not completely in sync -- right?
It seems so. So the "real" d.o.o server needs to have (and deliver) only the most recent metadata, but not deliver all files himself.
The next feature request would be: make a "default=retry" configuration button in YaST2, to let us go to sleep after the first press and wakeup with a finished installation.
Yes, I would love that option. I once had to do the retry 20 times to get
the one file. It took 24 hours to get everything. I fell a sleep a
couple of times and had to hit retry till the file/s came across. Hard to
stay awake after being up for 36-48 hours.
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Boyd Gerber