Hi Anthony, Am Thursday 21 September 2006 01:35 schrieb Anthony L. Bryan:
I thought you might be interested in the Metalinks for openSUSE, which are automatically generated by one of your mirrors (http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/) at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/.
Right, this is indeed interessting.
Metalinks are really useful for large files like ISOs and contain all mirror and p2p locations along with checksums and other metadata. I've attached one (edited, doesn't contain all mirrors), it's an XML file and is pretty self explanatory, but here's a good description:
maybe also for providing lists of our inst-source tree mirrors. Good to know that there exist already something like a standard, we may can reuse (means supporting) it in YaST / linuxrc / build service. However, I would prefer when we can revert the links in the wiki download pages, because it does make the download tables way more complicate for now and almost nobody have a metalink supporting application installed. Do you have any GUI application already supporting it ? Do you have a defined mimetype for it ? In this way, we could prepare a package for 10.2 and supporting it directly. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org