[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ?

Sun May 22 17:22:08 CEST 2011

2011/5/22 Juergen Harms <Juergen.Harms at unige.ch>:
+> There appears to be a large number of users who are not satisfied with the
+> Mandriva way of mirror selection (count me in). But this should not
+> automatically be interpreted to "Mageia needs easyurpm". Why not submit the
+> "standard" mirror selection offered by Mageia to an evolution that takes the
+> opinions expressed into account? - and really make things like easyurpm
+> unnecessary? Mageia is a community distro!
+>
+> Question - what is more difficult: come to a common opinion on a solution
+> where everybody is happy, or do the corresponding implementation???
+
+Of course, as I said, I'd be happy if such additional 3rd party
+applications would not be necessary.
+
+I've also listed the requirements: :
+- a filter option to select only mirrors with tainted repos for those
+who want to use them (a MUST HAVE)
+- urpmi/rpmdrake being able to check the selected mirror for
+availability and uptodate status before using the mirror (a MUST HAVE)
+- ability of urpmi/rpmdrake to switch to another mirror if the
+availability and/or uptodate status is not given (a MUST HAVE)
+- option to switch the mirror during a session if connection speed is
+too slow (compared to other known mirrors) (a NICE TO HAVE)
+
+-- 
+wobo
+