Perhaps someone can refresh my memory: under old EL, was the mirror
list statically built into the install package, dynamically loaded if an
Internet connection is available, or a mix of these two? I do not
recall having to type long strings such as mirror URLs into the "old"
installs.
For IBM RH, a limited list of IBM RH "owned" servers makes business
sense, but not for an open system licensed for free. (The argument of
cost transference through the use of a no-cost-to-the-business server
often is outweighed by market control and brand identification enforced
loyalty arguments.)
On 4/12/21 2:55 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:23 AM Takashi Ichihara
<ichih...@rarfaxp.riken.go.jp> wrote:
My recollection of a fresh install of SL (it has been a number of years,
and thus memory may be defective) is that SL provided a set of mirrors.
Is one to assume that AL8 has no such mirrors or that AL8 network
bootable media does not include the list so established?
Just one comment.
AlmaLinux already has a lot of mirros! ( 75 mirror sites now :-) )
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mirrors.almalinux.org_&d=DwIBaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=y7r9iro2whYATmZvTlfDdVMBibosCwY4wOi8tLPubYc&s=iNBj7JqH-k8I7-Rb1JRBt7cEypGutVRrBPCPo7siPmc&e=
RHEL 8 installation media do not have a console selectable "pick a
mirror from this list to install from", nor does CentOS 8. You have to
type it in manually in the network based installation interface, or
work from the installation DVD rather than the netinstall ISO and
avoid network installation altogether. AlmaLinux 8 would have to
violate binary consistency with RHEL to fix this flaw.
This kind of stupidity is one of customer burdening regression in a
vital tool is one of the reasons I'm not happy with RHEL 8 and the
clones, and am not championing it.
