nicolas vigier a écrit :
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Thomas Backlund wrote:
Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.11.2010 10:03:
2010/11/27 Ahmad Samir<ahmadsamir3...@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.
This is actually an option I thought of...
Providing two mirror list, one list with "free" mirrors and one with "full"
mirrors.
Or one list, but listing all medias individually.
One list provides a lot more flexibility, particularly in defining what
we want mirrors to carry. We could end up with several types of mirrors.
Some ISO-only, others all but ISOs, etc.
