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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Repo down: repository fallback by default...</H1>
    <B>Jehan Pag&#232;s</B> 
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<PRE>Hi,

I am trying to install some software and get the error:
&lt;&lt;
 L'installation a &#233;chou&#233;, certains fichiers sont manquants :
    <A HREF="rsync://">rsync://</A>
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 &#224; jour votre base de donn&#233;es urpmi.

Essayer de continuer n&#233;anmoins ?
&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>(basically the rsync failed)

So I guess the repo is down, hopefully temporarily. I went to the
&quot;configure media sources&quot; UI and &quot;add a specific media mirror&quot; (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 &quot;closer&quot; 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 &quot;installation high availability&quot;.

Shouldn't that be the default behavior?
Thanks.

Jehan
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