Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Perhaps bad form to reply to one's own post. I might add that google was no help with a search limited to ZYPP_MULTICURL and leap.
It's probably a little early to expect any useful results on that search. When I googled "ZYPP_MULTICURL", the first hit was
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2015-11/msg00442.html :-)
The 2nd hit weas about libzypp, as Andrei suggested.
I see that ZYPP_MULTICURL is still checked, and it seems that if it is true (not set to 0), the connection is made via MediaMultiCurl::MediaMultiCurl, which I would suspect is the same as it has been.
The problem I am having is that I have installed Leap in a VirtualBox. I have done this before with other versions of openSUSE, and used zypper without issue. We always make one of these as the 'official' build environment of the various releases we support. When I try to install some packages that we want in this VBox, the status when downloading is crazy. It goes up and down in percent. In larger packages, it never to completes, and zypper fails. This looks like what I saw when we did not use ZYPP_MULTICURL=0. Our systems are behind a Cisco firewall (called something like ironhorse, if memory serves).
"Ironport" I suspect. It's not a firewall as such, it's an email and web security filter. I guess it could be getting in the way, although it can't possibly have an issue with multiple concurrent requests. Most browsers will issue multiple concurrent requests for every page. It's odd that zypper should behave differently depending on the environment, i.e. virtual or physical.
It wants to download the entire item on it's own and check for virus before passing the bits to the client. When libzypp makes multiple connections, this causes problems.
Wouldn't this also happen during a normal installation? (it sounds to me as if ZYPP_MULTICURL=0 cures the symptom, but not the problem). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org