I would suggest that simply mentioning in the doc that rsync is a more reliable protocol than http, *especially* over slow / high latency links, and that reposync handles stops and restarts more cleanly.
IMO that would make it clear to everyone what the problems are. -Chris On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Alan Evangelista <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/04/2015 02:09 PM, Chris Patti wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Alan Evangelista >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 05/29/2015 12:16 PM, Chris Patti wrote: >>>> >>>> After talking with folks on the freenode #cobbler channel about this, >>>> please consider changing your protocol from http to rsync. You will >>>> likely see much better results as we have. >>> >>> >>> As http mirroring seems unstable, imho we should either not support http >>> mirroring or >>> at least mention the issue in Cobbler documentation. >> >> I agree completely. > > > I do not use cobbler reposync, so I could use users feedback here. We should > drop http mirroring > or just mentioning it is unstable in Cobbler documentation is enough? > Someone has used repo > mirroring via HTTP successfully? > > > Regards, > Alan Evangelista > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler -- Christopher Patti - Geek At Large | GTalk: [email protected] | AIM: chrisfeohpatti | P: (260) 54PATTI "Technology challenges art, art inspires technology." - John Lasseter, Pixar _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
