Hi all, I understand that mirror issues have been discussed many times before, but I would really like to get to the bottom of the current situation (and have an up-to-date cooker mirror as well!!).
It looks to me like a whole bunch of rpms have disappeared from the mirrors, for example the majority of kdebase and libkde rpms. What gives? I'm wanting to be an active tester, but my cooker tree is being totally screwed (large numbers of files being deleted), and it seems that no matter what rsync mirror I use, or what rsync script I use (troels.rsync6.2.pl, cooksync.pl, or rubysync), I always end up with an incomplete or out of date cooker tree. I hate to think of how many gigs I've downloaded trying to get this sorted. Is there a deffinitive mirror *status* page up somewhere I could refer to? Perhaps something easily parsable so that I can configure my script to use the closest up-to-date mirror? Could we get some kind of p2p solution up and running? With so many people wanting to keep a local cooker tree, it would seem self-evident that we should be taking advantage of this technology. A cooker torrent would be excellent! (does BitTorrent handle large numbers of files easily?). Cheers in advance for anyone with some sanity to end the insanity. Oh, and could an experimental branch be set up for software that has wide appeal, but is not stable enough for general inclusion in the Cooker? One example would be OpenOffice.org 1.1rc3, others might be builds for different architectures... Best regards, Paul.
