On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:49:28PM -0600, Rajko M. wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2007 16:43, Josef Wolf wrote: > > > > In 10.2, the mirror for online-updates is randomly choosen. There's no > > chance anymore to choose a specific mirror. I'd rather choose the same > > mirror for all of my boxes because I want the packages be cached by my > > big fat squd that is sitting between my boxes and the ISP. With this, > > the updates would be dwnloaded only once for the first box and all the > > other boxes would get the update smuch faster from the squid cache. > > > > Why is in 10.2 no more chance to choose a specific mirror for online > > updates? > > Put in YaST Installation Source update repository, and it will be used.
But the very first update, which is done right after the first reboot on a fresh install, will pull huge amounts from some random (potentially slow) mirror, and all the patches end up a second/third/fourth/... time in my squid cache. They could be delivered pretty fast from my cache, but since every install chooses a different mirror, I end up mirroring _all_ existing mirrors in my squid. And my squid cache is not used at all, it is just filled up :-( All this makes the installation procedure only slower and more tedious. Since I do installations from scratch often, this is a huge drawback for me. I don't understand. What would be so bad if the user could choose a specific mirror at installation time? A random mirror could still be selected by default. But there should be a button "change mirror" or something. This was possible in older suse releases, and nobody complained. This is still possible in all the other distributions I know. Why was this button removed in newer suse releasaes? What's the rationale? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
