[Mageia-dev] urpmi always use rsync

Wed Mar 13 20:23:53 CET 2013

Op woensdag 13 maart 2013 16:12:11 schreef Guillaume Rousse:
+> 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.
+
+it annoys me that the spaces seem to break the bash-completion for the media 
+names...
+