On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Christoph Thiel 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... > > A very good idea. > A failing redirected single-file request could get overcome with the "retry" > button then if d.o.o does a round-robin redirection. > > > 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? > > It seems so. So the "real" d.o.o server needs to have (and deliver) only the > most recent metadata, but not deliver all files himself. > > The next feature request would be: make a "default=retry" configuration button > in YaST2, to let us go to sleep after the first press and wakeup with a > finished installation.
Yes, I would love that option. I once had to do the retry 20 times to get the one file. It took 24 hours to get everything. I fell a sleep a couple of times and had to hit retry till the file/s came across. Hard to stay awake after being up for 36-48 hours. -- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
