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+ <H1>[Mageia-webteam] [Bug 3166] use mirrorbrain for download managemenet instead of broken mirror-choosing by timezone</H1>
+ <B>Christian Lohmaier</B>
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+--- Comment #21 from Christian Lohmaier &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-webteam">lohmaier+mageia at googlemail.com</A>&gt; 2012-11-20 02:29:35 CET ---
+@Thierry: Picking timezone as in the bug mentioned in the initial description
+has nothing to do with mirrorbrain.
+
+Mirrorbrain does geolocation by IP, so depending on timezone is not necessary
+at all..
+
+I did create the patch for <A HREF="https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56879">https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56879</A>
+because Mandriva (and Mageia) does *not* use mirrorbrain, but instead *does*
+depend on the timezone.
+
+Currently, the $MIRRORLIST method uses the system's timezone-city as reference
+as to what mirror to use, and this is stupid, at least in central Europe (where
+there are many mirrors that are much closer than your country's capital city)
+
+
+To make it clear: Mirrorbrain doesn't depend on any user-configured stuff. It
+decides based on the IP that is used what mirror to chose. It does geolocation
+by IP.
+
+Ordered from worse to best:
+* location reference point is taken from the timezone (urpmi as it is now)
+* user has the option to manually specify his actual location (urpmi with
+patch, patch is available)
+* user doesn't have to bother, but closest mirror is assigned by having the
+downlaod-server examine the IP that is used to connect (mirrorbrain on server,
+no patch to urpmi necessary, but no mirrorbrain installed yet)
+
+If you meant that urpmi should query the geolocation on the user's machine and
+use that instead, this would be an alternative method, but of course without
+the other benefit that mirrorbrain would bring. And this way would also require
+Mageia to setup an appropriate service that would return the location on
+request (or you would have to require a geolocation-database package to
+installed on the user's system, not very nice....)
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