https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284617
User poeml@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284617#c8
--- Comment #8 from Peter Poeml 2008-10-02 11:42:18 MDT ---
I'm still meditating whether to reopen this bug.
Anyway, short heads-up on the status quo:
We have an new, alternative, experimental media handler in libzypp which
allows accessing multiple mirrors in parallel and do automatical
failover.
There are some interesting things that can be done with that.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to play with libzypp since it needs
recompilations for each change, but we could have a wrapper that's
called by libzypp, which could change the downloaded metalink on the fly
and add mirrors to it. The wrapper would then call the actual download
program. This is a way how setting preferred mirrors can achieved today.
It also allows to add a local mirror to the list that isn't publicly
reachable.
That should give all the flexibility that is needed.
In the end, zypper and yast should have an interface to do such
configuration of course.
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