On 2017-07-25 19:26, John Andersen wrote:
On 07/25/2017 06:03 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Sadly, that means mirrorbrain makes the selection for us.
Is there no way to influence this mirrorbrain thingie?
(Isn't mirrorbrain only used for Downloading Opensuse ISO's? Isn't something else used for zypper/yast repository ramdomization?)
I know in prior releases of opensuse, you could pick one or a few mirrors to use. I know other distros still have this capability. I believe some countries had (maybe still) laws requiring in-country mirrors.
So did opensuse abandon the ability to pick a country, pick a mirror, and are we locked into random mirror engine that can't detect slow mirrors?
You can write a mirror in the config. The easiest manner (IMO) is editing the file: /etc/zypp/repos.d/download.opensuse.org-oss.repo: [download.opensuse.org-oss] name=Main Repository (OSS) enabled=1 autorefresh=1 baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/ path=/ type=yast2 keeppackages=0 Just comment out the "baseurl" line and write your own. This is not detected as a repo change by yast/zypper. I knew of a way to alter that and use your own local redirector, using a local apache server - but I don't recall how, I used that two years ago, I think, for packman. I may be able to find that out another day if you are interested. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))