On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > The load should be shared by others.  Your site is the best, I just fear 
> > it is overload sometimes.  The load should be shared.  We need a better 
> > network for the OSS version.  Using the ones that work sometimes gives 
> > time outs or unavailability.  I have to often use the IP address and not 
> > download.opensuse.org...  As the ones received do not have everything 
> > that is needed.
> We should probably delay the redirection on download.openSUSE.org and have 
> the user browse the local ftp tree and only redirect on file request, to 
> make sure he can take all files that are available into account. ATM d.o.o 
> redirects as early as possible, i.e. if you access http://d.o.o/somepath 
> it will redirect you to a server that has the path. But that server might 
> not have all the files that are actually available...

Yes, sometimes the server only has some or a subset of what is needed for 
doing a YaST inst.  I was trying to do an internet installation using a 
user.sel file as a starting point.  I had over 20 packages that could not 
be installed because the were not on the server I was directed to.  I have 
noticed on some upgrades that the files are unavailable as well.
 
> The inital usecase for d.o.o (when I did the first implementation) was to 
> have a generic URL for the announcements and to point the installer (YaST) 
> to. But it actually seems people try to browse the inst-sources with it -- 
> and end up on mirrors that are not completely in sync -- right?

Yes!

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Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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