[Mageia-dev] Repo down: repository fallback by default...

Sat Nov 10 14:16:18 CET 2012

2012/11/10 Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>:
+> Hi,
+>
+>
+> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Christian Lohmaier
+> <lohmaier+mageia at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>>
+>> Hi *,
+>>
+>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>
+>> wrote:
+>> >
+>> > So I guess the repo is down, hopefully temporarily. I went to the
+>> > "configure
+>> > media sources" UI and "add a specific media mirror" (was using the
+>> > $MIRRORLIST default until now).
+>> >
+>> > So my real question is: couldn't the $MIRRORLIST fallback to other
+>> > servers
+>> > than the "closer" instead of failing?
+>>
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3166
+>>
+>> would solve all that....
+>>
+>
+> Cool. :-)
+
+Yes, extremely cool! :) This is one of my favourite bugs of all times.
+Remember, this bug is older than Mageia itself! The ability of urpm to
+switch mirrors in case of a not responding or not up-to-date mirror
+was requested in Mandriva almost right after $MIRRORDIR was
+implemented (3-4 years ago?).
+
+Hopefully somebody with the necessary knowledge could find the time to
+implement the solution discussed here and assigned to webteam 5 months
+ago.
+