[Mageia-dev] urpmi always use rsync

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2013 16:12:11 schreef 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.

it annoys me that the spaces seem to break the bash-completion for the media 
names...