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