On Friday 08 June 2007 14:24:47 Anthony Bryan wrote: > I was hoping Fedora could investigate using Metalinks for their ISO > downloads. Metalink is an XML format for listing all the ways you can > get a file or collection of files (mirrors + their location, rsync, > p2p) along with checksums to automatically repair a file in case of > error, signatures, language, OS/arch, and other metadata. It's mainly > used for large files like ISOs, where errors can be very frustrating. > > It's supported by about 20 programs on unix, mac, and win, including > aria2 (already in the Fedora repos). It's used by openSUSE, > OpenOffice.org, cURL, and many other distributions. > > Here's a screenshot of a Metalink download in the DownThemAll Firefox > extension (nightly build). What you don't see are all the mirrors and > checksums. > http://code.downthemall.net/maierman/metaselect4.png > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink This is something interesting, and I wonder if we could make use of MirrorManager ( https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/mirrormanager ) to have dynamic .metalink files created with updated mirror readiness info. Certainly something that looks worth looking into. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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