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<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Sun May 22 10:21:17 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>2011/5/22 Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">misc at zarb.org</A>>:
><i> Le dimanche 22 mai 2011 à 05:51 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
</I>>><i> I haven't used EasyUrpmi, but I used the other (similar) web tool
</I>>><i> SmartUrpmi regularly.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> My reason was not to add PLF or any other repo (MUD or other). My main
</I>>><i> reason was my dislike of the %MIRRORLIST system of Mandriva, you could
</I>>><i> get connected to a very slow mirror or even to one which was not
</I>>><i> uptodate without urpmi being able to switch to another mirror during
</I>>><i> one session (a known bug). So I used SmartUrpmi to select a mirror
</I>>><i> which I knew to be fast, reliable and uptodate instead of playing
</I>>><i> lottery with %MIRRORLIST.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> There is likely stuff to improve with mirrorlist selection indeed ( I
</I>><i> would add AS number to it, as well as bandwidth, and push a smarter
</I>><i> system in urpmi one day to get nearer mirros, and add some weight based
</I>><i> on network related stuff ), but since everybody work around it, no one
</I>><i> is motivated to improve it or provides information for that. So because
</I>><i> people able to fix focus on not facing the problem and because there is
</I>><i> a know workaround, newer users face the problem.
</I>
As soon as the %MIRRORLIST system
- checks the fastest mirror before using it
- checks the update status of the mirror before using it
- switches to another mirror if the selected mirror is not reachable
or not uptodate
I will gladly forget all webtools and dedicated mirror selection.
(I remember writing almost the same at least 2 years ago in a same
discussion at Mandriva)
><i> Worst, since people focus on specific mirrors ( d-c being the prime
</I>><i> example ), the mirror slowly become more and more overloaded with
</I>><i> requests, forcing admin of using complex scheme to divide the
</I>><i> ressources.
</I>
You can't avoid this. Users want to be connected to teh mirror which
provides the best service, you can't force them to use a slow mirror
just to protect better mirrors.
>><i> Today with Mageia this risk is not high because there are not so many
</I>>><i> mirrors around my residence. But I still would like to select a
</I>>><i> dedicated mirror (my own mirror) from such a list as provided by the
</I>>><i> web tool.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It can already be done.
</I>
Read my previous mail.
--
wobo
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