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Re: Maemo repositories?

People.. There's a REASON they call it BETA..

The finished version WILL be different and your WILL have to reinstall everything. If you can't handle that then stay away from beta software..

Sorry.. Too many whiners around me today...

---dave---

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Originally Posted by TA-t3 (Post 100837)

And Debian users usually use their local mirror, not the central Debian server. And companies with a number of Debian users may even have their own mirror of a mirror.. as where I work, for example. So the load tends to be quite distributed.

Their national mirror. You're not seriously suggesting that the load on the maemo repository is anything like equal to that of say us.ubuntu.com?

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Originally Posted by qgil (Post 100590)

Sorry for the download speed problems and thank you to those offering alternative solutions. We are paying some money for good bandwidth and global caching. We will look today to the download statistics and talk to the service providers to see what was/is going on.

That pretty much settles it for me.

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Originally Posted by schroncd (Post 100959)

The finished version WILL be different and your WILL have to reinstall everything.

Just fyi, with OS2008(beta) the backup/restore process works much better than in OS2007. So it probably won't be as painful as you are expecting.

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Okay also... how come this is practically the only form of linux that doesn't have one central repository, and instead to install different programs you need 20 of them? Why can't we just have one repository with all programs, and a bunch of mirrors?

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Originally Posted by JeffElkins (Post 101025)

Their national mirror. You're not seriously suggesting that the load on the maemo repository is anything like equal to that of say us.ubuntu.com?

You're not seriously suggesting that Maemo has the resources behind it that the central Ubuntu repository has?

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Jeff, I don't have the faintest idea of how many US ubuntu users there are. But if the load is high I would guess they're using a round-robin setup of distributed servers, where their host.domain name maps to different IP addresses, distributing the load automatically. Maemo is still a single site, as far as I know. Let's hope that at some stage Maemo can/will be given the resources to go in that direction.

@ferjant, @jhoff80: The high number of repositories is a valid complaint, and it has been raised many times. And from what I can read on the mailing lists Nokia is completely aware of the problem and there are plans to improve on that (with the help of the community). A bigger problem than the large number of repositories is that many of the repos are not self-contained the way e.g. Debian repositories are: Either a repository includes all the dependencies its applications need, or it only depends on packages located in the "standard" repository (which could be repository.maemo.org in our case). But this _will_ improve.

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Originally Posted by zerojay (Post 101203)

You're not seriously suggesting that Maemo has the resources behind it that the central Ubuntu repository has?

Huh? Sorry, that lost me :)

I originally wondered if there might be bandwidth problems unrelated to the download of the N800 beta. And, as I posted above, a Nokia rep letting us know they were investigating bandwidth problems settled it for me.

Re: Maemo repositories?

Unreachable again.
After 2mns, I got one or two packets. I give up..

There is something broken overthere, can't be only the load due to people downloading. I suspect other things..

edit:
and now it's instantaneous...
:confused: