On Sunday 22 February 2009 12:40:22 pm Jay Mistry wrote:
What are metalinks for the repositories, as are mentioned in the link below ?
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS USE_11.1/
Can they be enabled (or added as repos) in Yast --> Software --> Repositories ? Is there an advantage/disadvantage to using metalinks instead of standard repo links ?
Hi Jay, Here is few articles on openSUSE wiki about metalinks and its usage. http://en.opensuse.org/Metalinks http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Redirector#Built-in%20Metalink%20suppor... http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover The most important part is client program aria2c . http://en.opensuse.org/Aria2c You can use it with zypper. For instance: ZYPP_ARIA2C=1 zypper up to make zypper to use aria2c instead of curl. Though, be aware that is not yet advertised as user ready, but it worked for me. The aria2c is a bit aggressive with number of connections, but that should be already fixed in factory. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org