Bug 7571

Summary:	The package manager doesn't let me choose the mirror I want to dowload updates
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin <LpSolit>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	rpmdrake	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2012-09-25 18:28:50 CEST

The package manager has $MIRRORLIST as URL. When calling rpmdrake from a shell, I see it contacts rsync://ftp.LinuxCabal.org/Mageia/distrib/2/i586, which hasn't been updated for more than a week now. So I removed all media from the package manager and clicked the "Add" button to add new media again. I hoped it would let me select the mirror I want, but it didn't. It automatically selected ftp.LinuxCabal.org again, despite it hasn't been updated for a long time.

So it would be great if I could manually select the mirror I want, and ideally with the timestamp of their last update to better decide which one to select. I know there are updates for packages I have installed, and it's frustrating to not be able to install them because the mirror lags for days or weeks.

Comment 1 James Kerr 2012-09-26 08:23:50 CEST

Use "File - Add a specific media mirror" (or Ctrl-M) (instead of hitting the "Add" button).

Comment 2 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2012-09-26 13:45:43 CEST

Ah, I didn't think there would be another way to add sources. Sorry for that!

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME