[Mageia-dev] Mirror list for apps (LONG mail)

Thu Nov 4 01:16:52 CET 2010

Le jeudi 04 novembre 2010 à 01:03 +0100, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+> * Michael Scherer (misc at zarb.org) wrote:
+> > Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 19:47 +0100, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+> > 
+> > > 3) The list look like:
+> > > continent=EU,zone=DE,country=Germany,latitude=51.97,longitude=7.63,version=2011.0,arch=x86_64,type=distrib,url=rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/mandrakelinux/devel/2011.0/x86_64
+> > > continent=EU,zone=DE,country=Germany,latitude=51.97,longitude=7.63,version=2011.0,arch=x86_64,type=updates,url=rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/mandrakelinux/devel/2011.0/x86_64
+> > 
+> > I would add the AS number, as this would allow urpmi to take a mirror
+> > that is really near from a network point of view.
+> 
+> My software fetch IP address, so it can find AS number as soon we a way
+> to find them.
+
+Pascal sent a email about this, using dns.
+ 
+> > > 3) The content
+> > >   * tags seems be optional
+> > >   * mirror point to 2011 not cooker (a symlink at time)
+> > 
+> > Well, it depend if we want to let people go on cooker by default or not.
+> 
+> This URL is used by urpmi on cooker system, so people using cooker are
+> aware about how it works (at least I hope).
+
+What about people using RC and Beta ?
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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