Josef Wolf wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:49:28PM -0600, Rajko M. wrote: >> On Friday 09 March 2007 16:43, Josef Wolf wrote: >>> In 10.2, the mirror for online-updates is randomly choosen. There's no >>> chance anymore to choose a specific mirror. I'd rather choose the same >>> mirror for all of my boxes because I want the packages be cached by my >>> big fat squd that is sitting between my boxes and the ISP. With this, >>> the updates would be dwnloaded only once for the first box and all the >>> other boxes would get the update smuch faster from the squid cache. >>> >>> Why is in 10.2 no more chance to choose a specific mirror for online >>> updates? >> Put in YaST Installation Source update repository, and it will be used. > > But the very first update, which is done right after the first reboot on > a fresh install, will pull huge amounts from some random (potentially > slow) mirror, and all the patches end up a second/third/fourth/... time > in my squid cache. They could be delivered pretty fast from my cache, > but since every install chooses a different mirror, I end up mirroring > _all_ existing mirrors in my squid. And my squid cache is not used at > all, it is just filled up :-( > > All this makes the installation procedure only slower and more tedious. > Since I do installations from scratch often, this is a huge drawback for > me. > > I don't understand. What would be so bad if the user could choose a > specific mirror at installation time? A random mirror could still be > selected by default. But there should be a button "change mirror" or > something. This was possible in older suse releases, and nobody > complained. This is still possible in all the other distributions I > know. Why was this button removed in newer suse releasaes? What's > the rationale? My suggestion would be to have a script to rsync a particular mirror of your choice with your SQUID cache or use wget and download the whole mirror once and then have the wget script run once a day via cron to check for updates.
an idea but the commands used might need working on. Regards Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
