[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2010/11/27 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>:
>
> 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?).

Although I am a friend of SmartUrpmi and EasyUrpmi I do understand the
easy way the mirrorlist system provides, especially for new users. The
failure of this system due to failing mirrors was already discussed at
Mandriva and there is a bug in MDv bugzilla about it - still open.

But even if this bug could be fixed, the option for mirror maintainers
to exclude parts of the official mirror structure puts the mirrorlist
system in jeopardy, unless we have 2 mirrorlists, one with and one
without "problematic" software and let the user select one or the
other before he sets up his media.

-- 
wobo