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! -- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
