On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > We should probably delay the redirection on download.openSUSE.org and
> > have the user browse the local ftp tree and only redirect on file
> > request, to make sure he can take all files that are available into
> > account. ATM d.o.o redirects as early as possible, i.e. if you access
> > http://d.o.o/somepath it will redirect you to a server that has the
> > path. But that server might not have all the files that are actually
> > available...
>
> Yes, sometimes the server only has some or a subset of what is needed
> for doing a YaST inst. I was trying to do an internet installation
> using a user.sel file as a starting point. I had over 20 packages that
> could not be installed because the were not on the server I was directed
> to. I have noticed on some upgrades that the files are unavailable as
> well.
So you didn't use download.openSUSE.org as your installation source, but
used download.openSUSE.org to find a mirror and than c&p'ed it to be the
installation source. Right? [If you had used download.openSUSE.org all the
way, it should have choosen different mirrors for different files, because
it has a local cache where it stores all the information about the status
of all files on all servers.]
To the server admins: If you feel you don't get enough or too much
traffic, please contact me (of list), so I can do some fine tuning. ATM
all request directed at download.openSUSE.org are distributed equally
amongst our "primary" mirrors.
If there is interest in this topic, I might prepare some slides to give a
"speed talk" on this at FOSDEM.
> > The inital usecase for d.o.o (when I did the first implementation) was
> > to have a generic URL for the announcements and to point the installer
> > (YaST) to. But it actually seems people try to browse the inst-sources
> > with it -- and end up on mirrors that are not completely in sync --
> > right?
>
> Yes!
Alright, I'll put this onto my agenda...
Regards
Christoph
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