On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 17:47, Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/5/22 Romain d'Alverny <[email protected]>: >>> Question - what is more difficult: come to a common opinion on a solution >>> where everybody is happy, or do the corresponding implementation??? >> >> You won't please everybody anyway. So prototype something >> working/square enough for evaluation, with constraints/rules you find >> (or even better, find an existing solution - there must be some >> already existing). That suppose that the need is properly defined, >> written down first (part of it is "what is not satisfying currently" >> and "how can this be done within Mageia infrastructure"). > > I think I already defined the (long time existing) requirements properly, not?
I was not answering your point at the time. But yes. Is there a bug (or a set of these) open about this topic? (because these should be assigned for Mageia 2 milestone, not before at least). > I don't think there is an already existing solution in Mandriva/Mageia > (as I said, it was a longterm and still existing bug in mandriva with > no change so far). I think that, having to still manually handle this, most of the time, is the thing to fix. Easyurpmi was a useful manual solution in its time for a given context. Although it is no question to remove the ability to manually handle this if needed, improving the automatic way is the real issue. A service that: - manages a list of mirrors that are up to date for a given set of files (be it RPMs or ISOs), - answers a list of best mirrors for a given client location (with better criterias than just "belongs to the same country") and a given set of files, is not so uncommon (had I more time right now, I'd investigate the server-side of things with MirrorBrain or some equivalent, at least to improve the accuracy of the list of mirrors returned by the server - this would be useful for both direct ISOs downloads and packages/updates downloads). > - a filter option to select only mirrors with tainted repos for those > who want to use them (a MUST HAVE) > - urpmi/rpmdrake being able to check the selected mirror for > availability and uptodate status before using the mirror (a MUST HAVE) > - ability of urpmi/rpmdrake to switch to another mirror if the > availability and/or uptodate status is not given (a MUST HAVE) > - option to switch the mirror during a session if connection speed is > too slow (compared to other known mirrors) (a NICE TO HAVE) If there's not one already, bug entries + a master bug would be nice. Cheers, Romain
