[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 14:56:16 CET 2010

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+
+> 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.
+
+Or one list, but listing all medias individually.
+
+