[Mageia-dev] Repo down: repository fallback by default...

Fri Nov 9 07:50:06 CET 2012

Hi,
+
+I am trying to install some software and get the error:
+<<
+ L'installation a échoué, certains fichiers sont manquants :
+    rsync://
+ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/media/tainted/release/mencoder-1.0-1.rc4.0.r34578.9.mga2.tainted.x86_64.rpm
+Vous devriez mettre à jour votre base de données urpmi.
+
+Essayer de continuer néanmoins ?
+>>
+(basically the rsync failed)
+
+So I guess the repo is down, hopefully temporarily. I went to the
+"configure media sources" UI and "add a specific media mirror" (was using
+the $MIRRORLIST default until now).
+
+[Side-note: the other mirror in Japan also had faulty tainted repos. I
+wonder if there is a problem with Japan politics maybe about tainted
+softwares?]
+
+That's all good, but that's a bad user experience. Most users won't know
+how to search, and will just think it is broken.
+
+So my real question is: couldn't the $MIRRORLIST fallback to other servers
+than the "closer" instead of failing?
+I mean, that's one of the main point of having mirrors. It indeed allows to
+faster downloads if you take a close one, but it could/should also be used
+for falling back, hence providing "installation high availability".
+
+Shouldn't that be the default behavior?
+Thanks.
+
+Jehan
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