2011/5/22 Michael Scherer <[email protected]>: > Le dimanche 22 mai 2011 à 05:51 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : >> I haven't used EasyUrpmi, but I used the other (similar) web tool >> SmartUrpmi regularly. >> >> My reason was not to add PLF or any other repo (MUD or other). My main >> reason was my dislike of the %MIRRORLIST system of Mandriva, you could >> get connected to a very slow mirror or even to one which was not >> uptodate without urpmi being able to switch to another mirror during >> one session (a known bug). So I used SmartUrpmi to select a mirror >> which I knew to be fast, reliable and uptodate instead of playing >> lottery with %MIRRORLIST. > > There is likely stuff to improve with mirrorlist selection indeed ( I > would add AS number to it, as well as bandwidth, and push a smarter > system in urpmi one day to get nearer mirros, and add some weight based > on network related stuff ), but since everybody work around it, no one > is motivated to improve it or provides information for that. So because > people able to fix focus on not facing the problem and because there is > a know workaround, newer users face the problem.
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) > Worst, since people focus on specific mirrors ( d-c being the prime > example ), the mirror slowly become more and more overloaded with > requests, forcing admin of using complex scheme to divide the > ressources. 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. >> Today with Mageia this risk is not high because there are not so many >> mirrors around my residence. But I still would like to select a >> dedicated mirror (my own mirror) from such a list as provided by the >> web tool. > > It can already be done. Read my previous mail. -- wobo
