On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote:
The load should be shared by others. Your site is the best, I just fear it is overload sometimes. The load should be shared. We need a better network for the OSS version. Using the ones that work sometimes gives time outs or unavailability. I have to often use the IP address and not download.opensuse.org... As the ones received do not have everything that is needed. We should probably delay the redirection on download.openSUSE.org and have
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: 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...
Yes, sometimes the server only has some or a subset of what is needed for doing a YaST inst. I was trying to do an internet installation using a user.sel file as a starting point. I had over 20 packages that could not be installed because the were not on the server I was directed to. I have noticed on some upgrades that the files are unavailable as well.
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?
Yes!
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Boyd Gerber