Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3618 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Joe,

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:28:33PM +0800, Joe Morris wrote:
> On 01/30/2009 09:15 AM, Peter Poeml wrote:
> > And, you can already test http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover today,
> > if you want, which is the way to go for the future.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
> >   
> I think this would be a great feature and would greatly help the
> downloading.  I have had so many problems redirecting to some dodgy
> mirrors that will give a curl error after it has slowly downloaded the
> file til 100% it made me change all my repositories directly to mirrors,
> but that has also had some problems (I suspect many are doing that).  I
> already voted for the 2 features mentioned in your other email, but I
> have a question.  I am running 11.1 x86_64.  My understanding of the
> above site is the code is already in there, and all I would need is to
> set the env var ZYPP_ARIA2C=1, so I created /etc/bash.bashrc.local and
> added export ZYPP_ARIA2C=1, which does show up in my env as well as
> root's.  When i changed the URL for my repositories back to

Little question, did you also install the aria2 package?
The one from 11.1?

> download.opensuse.org, they went from under repositories to under
> services, but I thought OK, maybe using aria2c changes that and I really
> don't care, but when opening Software Management, all the moved
> repositories failed.  Did I misunderstand some step?  Thanks for working
> on this problem, it is growing worse as I assume the mirrors get overloaded.

Note that this is to be regarded as a prototype and there may be bugs -
which is also why it needs testing, and bugs to be reported.

Peter
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