[Mageia-dev] Repo down: repository fallback by default...

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/11/10 Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Christian Lohmaier
> <lohmaier+mageia at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi *,
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > So I guess the repo is down, hopefully temporarily. I went to the
>> > "configure
>> > media sources" UI and "add a specific media mirror" (was using the
>> > $MIRRORLIST default until now).
>> >
>> > So my real question is: couldn't the $MIRRORLIST fallback to other
>> > servers
>> > than the "closer" instead of failing?
>>
>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3166
>>
>> would solve all that....
>>
>
> Cool. :-)

Yes, extremely cool! :) This is one of my favourite bugs of all times.
Remember, this bug is older than Mageia itself! The ability of urpm to
switch mirrors in case of a not responding or not up-to-date mirror
was requested in Mandriva almost right after $MIRRORDIR was
implemented (3-4 years ago?).

Hopefully somebody with the necessary knowledge could find the time to
implement the solution discussed here and assigned to webteam 5 months
ago.