On Mon 25 Aug 2003 22:52, Dave Cotton posted as excerpted below: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 05:06, Michael E. Jaggers wrote: > > The US feed for cooker (at least the sites that I know about) has been > > busted for a while. It seems that a number of US sites get their cooker > > from carroll.csc.psu.edu, and either the upstream node is broken, or > > carroll can't handle the updates. > > Many of the mirrors have stale "carroll in updating state" files in > their directory structure. The problem is how to unlock the situation, > short of tracking down the updating route of mirrors?
Catching up on the list and I don't know if this is still a problem or not, but I found that the rpmfind ftp mirror on speakeasy.net was updated when some other mirrors here in the US were not. I have separate entries for main and config. Here are the appropriate portions of urpmi.cfg, with the paths, etc, that you need for urpmi.addmedia: se.m ftp://rpmfind.speakeasy.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS { hdlist: hdlist.se.m.cz with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz key-ids: 70771ff3 } se.c ftp://rpmfind.speakeasy.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS2 { hdlist: hdlist.se.c.cz with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist2.cz key-ids: 70771ff3 } The other US mirror I was using was mirror.mcs.anl.gov, which I noted had that stale carroll file mentioned.. I originally got into Cooker from RPMFind, and had been using the SE RPMFind mirror for some time, as one of the fastest from my location. It isn't always as updated on Mdk anyway as the fr2.rpmfind mirror is, but it's definitely faster than going trans-atlantic to fr2 from here, and was **DEFINITELY** in better shape than mcs, last I checked it. (I'm in the middle of a project and am not updating Cooker right now, but decided I better catch up on the list anyway, as there were ~700 messages in queue to read!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
