Re: [zypp-devel] a broad appeal to fix opensuse's package-management's repository/redirector failure & recovery mechasnism

2014-10-02 Thread Michael Andres
On Wednesday 01 October 2014 16:10:32 grantksupp...@operamail.com wrote: > One idea -- a fallback mechanism *within* a repos' definition would be > useful > > For example, allow in a given repo's def'n, having multiple, numbered > baseurls > > baseurl1=http://direct/url/to/specific/site/1/.

[zypp-devel] a broad appeal to fix opensuse's package-management's repository/redirector failure & recovery mechasnism

2014-10-01 Thread grantksupport
In my experience, package management's routine failure to find/use a 'healthy' repository is a long-standing production problem. I'm requesting a fix. Here's a summary: I run Opensuse 13.1 on numerous machines lsb_release -rd Description:openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_