[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

andre999 andr55 at laposte.net
Sat Nov 27 11:43:00 CET 2010


Ahmad Samir a écrit :
> 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?).
>    
I see that a lot.

> 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.
>    

I agree.  The mirrorlist always connects me to a flaky mirror because it 
is geographically the closest, whereas there are several very good 
mirrors not much further away.
(Always up to date, and much faster)
A system to select mirrors like sourceforge would be much better.  I 
would just have to set it once to one of the good mirrors.

- André


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