[Shib-Users] Re: Slow response from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security://shibboleth/

[Bernd Oberknapp]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Cantor, Scott wrote:

> On 10/17/11 2:39 PM, "Martin B. Smith" <smithmb at ufl.edu> wrote:
>
>> We're trying to build some new machines, and we're noticing the official
>> RPM repo is often taking a long time to reply:
>
> It took less than a second for me, but the actual downloads are via
> mirrors.
>
> I doubt there are any US mirrors, that's probably strictly EU. It's
> probably possible for somebody to set up a mirror specific to particular
> projects if somebody wanted to. The shibboleth.net site is in the UK, so
> that won't help much for us to do it.

A list of mirrors is available at http://mirrors.opensuse.org/ .
There are some mirrors in the US but only one for the build service,
and that mirror only has the SLES11 and openSUSE repositories.

Best regards,
Bernd

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