[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

[Ahmad Samir]

On 27 November 2010 08:27, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Thomas Backlund <tmb at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> The idea of this layout with some of the separate sections (codecs,
>> firmware, games, non-free, debug_*) gives a mirror maintainer in a country
>> (or company) the option to exclude the parts they legally (or by company
>> policy) can not mirror.
>>
>
> I wonder how "urpmi.addmedia --distrib
> ftp://server/with/omitted/sections" should be interpreted then.
>
> Also mirror list should be indicating which sections are present; is
> it supported right now?
>

IMHO, the mirrorlist in its current status should be dropped
altogether... it's only good if the user has good mirrors near where
he lives, otherwise it just fails miserably. The whole point of using
a mirrorlist was that "urpmi will switch to another mirror if the
currently used one fails / can't be reached", that switch doesn't
happen, ("md5sum mismatch" rings a bell?).

At least with the specific media mirrors the user can, more easily,
guess that he can use add another mirror, with mirrorlist most new
users are left clueless.

-- 
Ahmad Samir