new 'fetch' warnings & repo errors on update?

[Pascal Bleser]

Andreas Hanke wrote:
> Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) schrieb:
>>> (2) are the repo failures typical? frequent?
>> You should ask SUSE.
> 
> There is no need to ask SUSE.
> People should simply not use the same repo setup that everybody else uses.
> 
> It seems that the user has some sort of preconfigured smart package.
> This means that he is using a mirror setup which is identical to what
> thousands of other people use.

Sure. It's not like there are 50 000 mirrors for opensuse.org

> This can never work. Use a mirror instead of anything that ends in
> opensuse.org. The best mirror setup is one that does not have any
> opensuse.org server in it, and the best mirror is one that nobody knows.

Ermm... download.opensuse.org and software.opensuse.org are *redirectors*.
You can just use those URLs and will always be round-robined on mirrors.

While my smart package includes explicit mirrors for those URLs,
they're not really needed.

> In the original post I can see that the user uses ftp.opensuse.org.
> Don't do that, it's trivial that this can't work.
> The situation will get worse starting today where all the users who
> don't know what a mirror is want to download 5 x 700 MB Beta2 ISOs from
> ftp.opensuse.org.

People are supposed to use download.opensuse.org, which is
automatically redirected to a mirror.

cheers
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