On Sunday, May 22, 2011 01:21:56 am Daniel Le Berre wrote: > Le 22/05/2011 09:42, Luca Olivetti a écrit : > > Al 22/05/11 05:51, En/na Wolfgang Bornath ha escrit: > >> 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). > > > > Same here, I *never* managed to upgrade the distribution, without > > using easyurpmi with manual mirror selection (the upgrade tool just > > removed the existing sources and always failed to add new ones). > > > > Bye > > I used easyurpmi for a while, mainly to add PLF sources, or to specify a > specific mirror when there was some mirroring problems in MDV (hdlist > not synced with repository content for instance). > > As noted previously, the PLF issue does not hold for MGA. > > It is probably worth improving the way the current media manager is > working than add yet another tool to the distrib. > > We could have for instance checkboxes when importing media sources with: > > - select mirror: by default let the media manager find a mirror for you, > else select one in a list > - include tainted: by default disable access to tainted repository. Warn > the user about the content of those repositories. > > The main point is that people often do not know about the media manager. > Maybe a button to that tool directly in the update app would give it > more visibility, instead of looking into it on the package manager menu. > Or maybe it should be an app on its own. > > Daniel I think this is a very valuable discussion and a need for it showing by the number of posts.
people often do not know about the media manager: I was one of 'em. Where is it? In Mageia, Control Cender, Configure media, I didn't know a way to add a medium by hand. If I click on the add button I can add either an <update sources only> and/or a <full set of sources> and what it does, it adds a $mirrorlist as source, I do not know or have control where those are. I have to go to -> file and then yes, I get a list. This is not very obvious since there is an <add> button. So instead I used easyurpmi old interface (which shows a lot of errors) and then copied and paste the command into a konsole. Maybe by adding the options to show when clicking on the add button would provide a good option, but I think it is is too late for Mageia 1 -- Thomas
