I have a system that is installed at a customer site. Their IT guys, as is usually the case when a Linux box arrives, are very conservative about what the machine can access. As we slowly make it available in their environ, I would like it to be able to access the internet. Mainly to get access to openSUSE repos for updates and the like. They are leaning toward allowing this. But they want to restrict the sites that can be accessed to some list that we provide to them. IT guys have their ideas. As we expect to use zypper to do most of this, we need to make sure that zypper limits itself to the sites that are listed. Is there any way to tell zypper which mirror sites are available so it will only consider those? As this system is in Portugal, maybe there is some list of quality mirrors that are best used in Portugal? Anyone else have this kind of restraint? -- Roger Oberholtzer
Dne pátek 4. srpna 2023 14:25:22 CEST, Roger Oberholtzer napsal(a):
I have a system that is installed at a customer site. Their IT guys, as is usually the case when a Linux box arrives, are very conservative about what the machine can access. As we slowly make it available in their environ, I would like it to be able to access the internet. Mainly to get access to openSUSE repos for updates and the like. They are leaning toward allowing this. But they want to restrict the sites that can be accessed to some list that we provide to them. IT guys have their ideas. As we expect to use zypper to do most of this, we need to make sure that zypper limits itself to the sites that are listed. Is there any way to tell zypper which mirror sites are available so it will only consider those? As this system is in Portugal, maybe there is some list of quality mirrors that are best used in Portugal? Anyone else have this kind of restraint?
AFAIK it should be enough to set directly selected repository in reposi files. I see single mirror in Portugal: <https://mirrors.opensuse.org/> -- Vojtěch Zeisek https://trapa.cz/ Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/
On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 2:32 PM Vojtěch Zeisek <vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.org> wrote:
Dne pátek 4. srpna 2023 14:25:22 CEST, Roger Oberholtzer napsal(a):
I have a system that is installed at a customer site. Their IT guys, as is usually the case when a Linux box arrives, are very conservative about what the machine can access. As we slowly make it available in their environ, I would like it to be able to access the internet. Mainly to get access to openSUSE repos for updates and the like. They are leaning toward allowing this. But they want to restrict the sites that can be accessed to some list that we provide to them. IT guys have their ideas. As we expect to use zypper to do most of this, we need to make sure that zypper limits itself to the sites that are listed. Is there any way to tell zypper which mirror sites are available so it will only consider those? As this system is in Portugal, maybe there is some list of quality mirrors that are best used in Portugal? Anyone else have this kind of restraint?
AFAIK it should be enough to set directly selected repository in reposi files. I see single mirror in Portugal: <https://mirrors.opensuse.org/>
OK. I will see how that works. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Roger Oberholtzer
On 8/4/23 07:51, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
AFAIK it should be enough to set directly selected repository in reposi files. I see single mirror in Portugal:<https://mirrors.opensuse.org/> OK. I will see how that works. Thanks for the suggestion.
Second the approach, Just pick a mirror in your region that is reasonably close (and that has a stable history) and use that. Failing finding a mirror that you have confidence it will be there in 6 months, you can always use: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories It has been there for at least 20 years. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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