[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Sat Nov 27 08:00:50 CET 2010

On 27 November 2010 08:27, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Thomas Backlund <tmb at iki.fi> wrote:
+>>
+>> The idea of this layout with some of the separate sections (codecs,
+>> firmware, games, non-free, debug_*) gives a mirror maintainer in a country
+>> (or company) the option to exclude the parts they legally (or by company
+>> policy) can not mirror.
+>>
+>
+> I wonder how "urpmi.addmedia --distrib
+> ftp://server/with/omitted/sections" should be interpreted then.
+>
+> Also mirror list should be indicating which sections are present; is
+> it supported right now?
+>
+
+IMHO, the mirrorlist in its current status should be dropped
+altogether... it's only good if the user has good mirrors near where
+he lives, otherwise it just fails miserably. The whole point of using
+a mirrorlist was that "urpmi will switch to another mirror if the
+currently used one fails / can't be reached", that switch doesn't
+happen, ("md5sum mismatch" rings a bell?).
+
+At least with the specific media mirrors the user can, more easily,
+guess that he can use add another mirror, with mirrorlist most new
+users are left clueless.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+