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Re: Mandriva 2007.0 mirror

Shlomo Solomon
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:07:58 -0700

On Thursday 20 September 2007 22:45, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> > Now that there's no Mandriva 2007.0 update mirror in Israel, I've been
> > randomly trying different mirrors, but they all seem to be VERY slow.
>
> Well, THERE IS a Mandriva mirror in Israel at
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/mandriva/
I never said there wasn't - only that there's no 2007.0. BTW, in my opinion, 
the change from http://mirror.iglu.org.il/ to http://mirror.isoc.org.il/ 
should have been annnounced on the list. In my case, I use URPMI in a script, 
so I had no way of knowing why updates just stopped working. Add the downtime 
on IGLU and you can see my problem.

> > BTW - I still think the IGLU mirror should not be limited to only 2007.1
> > update sources - at least as long as 2007.0 is supported.
>
> Well, my policy is to keep the last stable version + the development
> tree. You can try and collect a few people which need 2007.0 and
> convince me to add it.
I can see the point of not wasting storage (although at todays prices, . . . ) 
on large .iso files of a previous version, but I'd guess that the update 
mirror would not be a problem. You can't expect people to update to the 
latest version every 6 months - that's what update mirrors are for. Even Bill 
Gates doesn't issue a new version of his garbage every 6 months. In his case, 
it's more like once every 4 years. 

I can't offer you names of other 2007.0 users, but I'm sure they're out there 
and hope some of them will add requests.


-- 
Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
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