This is from the build service. It is in response to a question on opensuse.
-- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:38:59 +0200 From: Marcus Rueckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Benji Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [opensuse-buildservice] Redirector availability On 2007-09-15 11:43:46 +0100, Benji Weber wrote: > So the redirector has gone down /again/ this weekend. wrong. the redirector is still working: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ many people still have http://software.opensuse.org in their repository list. that host is broken. yes. (it looks like hardware problems) > And of course we get all the users coming asking why their package > management isn't working while there are no suse people around to fix > it. > > Having a high availability redirector is probably the single most > important thing the project needs right now. It goes down far too > often, and with our current strategy of adding repositories from the > community repositories module, installation, and YMPs using the > redirector this means that *every openSUSE user* is without package > management on a regular basis. > > This inconveniences people and damages the reputation of the > distribution amongst users. it also means that users cannot download > the distribution at all as there is no static fallback for > download.opensuse.org. > > The fact that it always goes down at weekends is a problem too, as > most people have jobs this is when "hobbyist" people are likely to be > wanting to try things out etc. > > Given how much adding repositories is automated in 10.3 we can no > longer rely on users distributing themselves amongst mirrors. > Therefore I think we either need to: > > - Have a co-hosted redirector, with monitoring to ensure uptime in > place for 10.3 or very soon after. we are working on a HA setup for download.o.o already. but so far the host is holding up pretty good. peter is doing a good job to optimize and improve the redirector. > - Have the build service YMP & installation/community repositories > suggestions use alternating mirrors instead of the redirector. Whilst > this would be suboptimal as we would lose tracking of statistics etc > it would be better than the situation currently where everyone loses > package management regularly. the ymps should be using download.opensuse.org already. if not that would be a critical bug. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
