[Mageia-dev] urpmi always use rsync

Wed Mar 13 16:12:11 CET 2013

Le 13/03/2013 15:01, David Walser a écrit :
+> zezinho <lists.jjorge at ...> writes:
+>> in my two cauldron systems, urpmi is now always using rsync, even if
+>> another downloader is setup in urpmi.cfg or asked in CLI.
+>>
+>> I am using default mirrorlist created by edit-urpm-sources.pl.
+>
+> Indeed it does, and even worse, if your network requires a proxy, this totally
+> does not work.  Even if you have a proxy configured through drakconf, it still
+> won't use it for rsync.  This technically is correct, as that proxy setting is
+> supposed to be just for http/https/ftp, and globally setting the RSYNC_PROXY
+> variable along with those may be undesirable and cause problems with using rsync
+> across your local network.  Still, it'd be nice if this could be handled better
+> somehow.  I'm just not sure what the right solution is.
+Quick solution: stop using useless complexity layers without added 
+value, and declare explicitely with mirror url you want to use. You'll 
+also have sane source identifiers, instead of the crappy defaut ones 
+unusable in command line.
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #268:
+
+Neutrino overload on the nameserver
+