[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Sat Nov 27 18:39:29 CET 2010

Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.11.2010 10:03:
+> 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.
+>
+
+This is actually an option I thought of...
+
+Providing two mirror list, one list with "free" mirrors and one with 
+"full" mirrors.
+
+--
+Thomas
+
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