On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 01:32:29 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:
> On 2022-04-09, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 22:55:44 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>>> There is no time saved on test, or not, as far as download time is concerned.
>>>
>>> Which is stupid. The files are all downloaded and tested that they will
>>> (at least superficially) install. I have now downloaded about 50GB,
>>> instead of 5 from princeton. That overloads their server, and is really
>>> bad manners.
>>
>> Hmmm, Off hand I do not remember 50 gig downloads unless doing a new release.
>> If those are normal updates then I suggest you should be installing updates
>> more often. Just checked, third time today and just now updated four packages.
>
> Thus are multiple reloads of the same files (about 5G worth each time,
> but many times)
>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do have to disagree about using the downloaded files. My pull_updates
>>>> script checks the node and if not "wb" then rsync's the cached rpms from 'wb' then
>>>> do the urpmi to get sync*.cz and already sees the cached rpm files
>>>> and does not download them again.
>>>
>>> I do agree rsync would be better, but the default is curl, and wget is
>>> easy. But using rsync can be rather tricky getting the right path.
>>> man urpmi.conf
>>> gives no hint about how to use rsync. And rsync can be tricky.
>>
>> My rsync is just between local nodes. wb being my web browsing node.
>> I use wget for pulling anything from mirrors/sites.
>
> I got it to work, more of less as I suggested. I changes http: in
> urpmi.conf to rsync: , put in a "downloader: rsync" into the very first
> {
> }
> section, (and for jameswhitby site, removed the "pub" as the first
> sub-directory) Only jameswhitby and princeton seem to be high speed and
> support rsync in N America.
>
>
> Does anyone know where a source is for Mga6? The sites I have looked at
> are all 7,8,cauldron only.

I went to kernel.org and then it dawned on me that sometime last year I
remembered there was thread of removing old releases to ease the storage
requirements on all mirrors.

You might trying 'mageia/distrib/6/' in a search engine.

On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 07:33:59 -0400, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> I went to kernel.org and then it dawned on me that sometime last year I
> remembered there was thread of removing old releases to ease the storage
> requirements on all mirrors.
> You might trying 'mageia/distrib/6/' in a search engine.

Already answered in this thread. It's Mageia-archive instead of just Mageia.
https://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia-archive/

Regards, Dave Hodgins