[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 22:37:40 CET 2010

nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> 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.
+>    
+
+One list provides a lot more flexibility, particularly in defining what 
+we want mirrors to carry.  We could end up with several types of mirrors.
+Some ISO-only, others all but ISOs, etc.
+
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