Re: High time to think about releasing 22.0
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
SY> Well keep on wishing, because for all of the mirrors that
SY> don't have a web server listening or don't have a web server
SY> listening in the right place you will still need EFS (or any
SY> other FTP solution).
I don't see your point. As long as the user has access to one HTTP
url for packages, even if it's slow that's better than no access to
dozens of fast FTP mirrors when EFS is broken. And we can't control
that, because vendors like Red Hat regularly change the client UIs,
which breaks EFS.
There is also the point that many companies don't allow direct ftp
connections to the outside. They demand usage of an HTTP proxy. I have
been sitting behind firewalls of customers and needed to download
packages by hand, instead of being able to use PUI.
(Not that I could use it in my current installation where it is broken
in several ways -- without me doing any configuration changes, but that
is an issue for a separate bug posting... ;-)
Cheers,
Joachim