On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:06:27PM -0500, M?ir?n Duffy wrote:
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:41 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 11:22 -0500, M??ir??n Duffy wrote:
> > From talking to numerous novice users in the design of the site I'm
> > not convinced that a checksum file is something that novice users are
> > aware of or much concerned about.
>
> Ignorance is no excuse, as they old saying goes, and it's something that
> needs brought to their attention, with the full how and why.
>
> > The main download link points directly to Fedora's main server, not a
> > mirror, so they'd be downloading the checksum from the same source as
> > the payload anyway.
>
> And the non-main download links...?
Novice users most likely won't use those.
> It was always the recommendation, before, to not download from the main
> site, to spread the load around the mirrors.
Yeh, it was our intention to have mirror manager generate a URL for
those download buttons that made the most sense given geographical
location, but that got dropped due to not having the time. It would be
worth bringing up again.
Ah, but it does. :-) The URLs look like:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Live/i686/...
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86...
which has the goodness of MirrorManager behind it, issuing a HTTP 30x
redirect to the best mirror it can.
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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO