[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Sat Nov 27 09:03:06 CET 2010

2010/11/27 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>:
+>
+> 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?).
+
+Although I am a friend of SmartUrpmi and EasyUrpmi I do understand the
+easy way the mirrorlist system provides, especially for new users. The
+failure of this system due to failing mirrors was already discussed at
+Mandriva and there is a bug in MDv bugzilla about it - still open.
+
+But even if this bug could be fixed, the option for mirror maintainers
+to exclude parts of the official mirror structure puts the mirrorlist
+system in jeopardy, unless we have 2 mirrorlists, one with and one
+without "problematic" software and let the user select one or the
+other before he sets up his media.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+