On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg 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.
d.o.o doesn't do failing redirects -- if it does, please contact me ;)
> > 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.
IMHO this isn't needed...
Regards
Christoph
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