[Mageia-dev] Mirror list for apps (LONG mail)

[Michael Scherer]

Le jeudi 04 novembre 2010 à 01:03 +0100, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> * Michael Scherer (misc at zarb.org) wrote:
> > Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 19:47 +0100, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> > 
> > > 3) The list look like:
> > > continent=EU,zone=DE,country=Germany,latitude=51.97,longitude=7.63,version=2011.0,arch=x86_64,type=distrib,url=rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/mandrakelinux/devel/2011.0/x86_64
> > > continent=EU,zone=DE,country=Germany,latitude=51.97,longitude=7.63,version=2011.0,arch=x86_64,type=updates,url=rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/mandrakelinux/devel/2011.0/x86_64
> > 
> > I would add the AS number, as this would allow urpmi to take a mirror
> > that is really near from a network point of view.
> 
> My software fetch IP address, so it can find AS number as soon we a way
> to find them.

Pascal sent a email about this, using dns.
 
> > > 3) The content
> > >   * tags seems be optional
> > >   * mirror point to 2011 not cooker (a symlink at time)
> > 
> > Well, it depend if we want to let people go on cooker by default or not.
> 
> This URL is used by urpmi on cooker system, so people using cooker are
> aware about how it works (at least I hope).

What about people using RC and Beta ?


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Michael Scherer