On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:30:40AM +0200, Han wrote: > Fabrice FACORAT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > there's a problem with the cache. I launch rpmdrake, select updates > > and after all. It fail to fetch some packages ( password problem > > with ciril.fr ! ). > > Thats because the servers anonymoys logons are all used. The only way > you can get in is to know the passwd. Indeed rpmdrake is not really > aware of full ftp-servers. At the moment it retries every 5 seconds > which is a nuisance to those servers and it doesn't give a note to the > desktop-user. > > Suggestion: wait for 5 minutes and put out a note to the desktop. > > By the way I allways start rpmdrake from the console. Now I bet most > newbies don't know this trick so wouldn't it be helpfull for them if > they would see all that info? > > Suggestion: basic. Let rpmdrake allways start from an xterm or make a > separate window for it. > Better yet, start 'rpmdrake --verbose'. You'll have even more detailled logs. I wouldn't suggest this to newbies, who can be afraid by all this stuff.
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