[Mageia-dev] urpmi always use rsync

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 13/03/2013 15:01, David Walser a écrit :
> zezinho <lists.jjorge at ...> writes:
>> in my two cauldron systems, urpmi is now always using rsync, even if
>> another downloader is setup in urpmi.cfg or asked in CLI.
>>
>> I am using default mirrorlist created by edit-urpm-sources.pl.
>
> Indeed it does, and even worse, if your network requires a proxy, this totally
> does not work.  Even if you have a proxy configured through drakconf, it still
> won't use it for rsync.  This technically is correct, as that proxy setting is
> supposed to be just for http/https/ftp, and globally setting the RSYNC_PROXY
> variable along with those may be undesirable and cause problems with using rsync
> across your local network.  Still, it'd be nice if this could be handled better
> somehow.  I'm just not sure what the right solution is.
Quick solution: stop using useless complexity layers without added 
value, and declare explicitely with mirror url you want to use. You'll 
also have sane source identifiers, instead of the crappy defaut ones 
unusable in command line.
-- 
BOFH excuse #268:

Neutrino overload on the nameserver