[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Sat Nov 27 10:13:36 CET 2010

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 09:00:50AM +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote:
+> 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?).
+
+In fact, md5 mismatch happen when the md5sum come from one mirror, and the hdlist
+from another one. This part of the urpmi code is too complex, and I didn't
+understood exactly the way it should work ( I mean, we could
+have a method "download" that does the right thing, switch to another mirror, etc, but
+it seems much more complex and therefor hard to fix ).
+
+> 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.
+
+IMHO, that's a bug that must be fixed. I have already attempted, but
+without any luck. And shall I also remind that this was asked by users ( ie
+most non new users have no trouble with a single mirror ).
+So if we remove, some users will ask us again to have it...
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+