Mirror detection can select broken mirror
Hi,
on the 26th I spent a night trying to install a few alpine systems.
One of the problems was that dl-5.alpinelinux.org was apparently dead.
Just not dead enough.
You could try to wget the apkindex and it would hang for a pretty long
time but not transfer a lot of data.
I was able to reproduce the problem in browser and from a geographically different system.
What we’d need seems to be two things:
- the installer to abort if it can’t fetch APKINDEX for a minute
- optionally that the mirror detection tries not just to connect but also downloads like 2-3KB of the file
(from redmine: issue id 4987, created on 2016-01-04, closed on 2017-05-19)