On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Andreas Hanke wrote:
> how does the download.opensuse.org redirector deal with
> dead/unmaintained mirrors?
>
> I just tried to check for Factory updates by downloading this file
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/media.1/media
>
> and was redirected to this mirror:
>
> http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/media.1/media
>
> The mirror is obviously useless, the media file is totally outdated
> (20060616083724), a repodata directory does not exist and most of the
> RPM subdirectories are almost empty.
>
> Would it be possible to enhance the redirector by auto-detecting such
> broken mirrors?
It should be able to handle this already. However, the
download.opensuse.org redirector cache hasn't been updated for a while,
because of the server room maintenance. I'v just restarted the updater.
Regards
Christoph
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