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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two</H1>
<B>nicolas vigier</B>
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<I>Mon Nov 29 14:56:16 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Thomas Backlund wrote:
><i> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.11.2010 10:03:
</I>>><i> 2010/11/27 Ahmad Samir<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com</A>>:
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</I>>>><i> IMHO, the mirrorlist in its current status should be dropped
</I>>>><i> altogether... it's only good if the user has good mirrors near where
</I>>>><i> he lives, otherwise it just fails miserably. The whole point of using
</I>>>><i> a mirrorlist was that "urpmi will switch to another mirror if the
</I>>>><i> currently used one fails / can't be reached", that switch doesn't
</I>>>><i> happen, ("md5sum mismatch" rings a bell?).
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</I>>><i> Although I am a friend of SmartUrpmi and EasyUrpmi I do understand the
</I>>><i> easy way the mirrorlist system provides, especially for new users. The
</I>>><i> failure of this system due to failing mirrors was already discussed at
</I>>><i> Mandriva and there is a bug in MDv bugzilla about it - still open.
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</I>>><i> But even if this bug could be fixed, the option for mirror maintainers
</I>>><i> to exclude parts of the official mirror structure puts the mirrorlist
</I>>><i> system in jeopardy, unless we have 2 mirrorlists, one with and one
</I>>><i> without "problematic" software and let the user select one or the
</I>>><i> other before he sets up his media.
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</I>><i>
</I>><i> This is actually an option I thought of...
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Providing two mirror list, one list with "free" mirrors and one with "full"
</I>><i> mirrors.
</I>
Or one list, but listing all medias individually.
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