[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Sat Nov 27 11:43:00 CET 2010

Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> 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?).
+>    
+I see that a lot.
+
+> 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.
+>    
+
+I agree.  The mirrorlist always connects me to a flaky mirror because it 
+is geographically the closest, whereas there are several very good 
+mirrors not much further away.
+(Always up to date, and much faster)
+A system to select mirrors like sourceforge would be much better.  I 
+would just have to set it once to one of the good mirrors.
+
+- André
+