Hi...

One of the things I like most about Mandrake is the online Software Update 
feature. This makes reinstalling and then applying subsequent security 
updates much simpler and less error-prone.

Two problems, however:

1. The list of available mirrors seems to fluctuate wildly. A few days ago, 
there were about 25. Today, there are 5 -- 3 don't answer, 1 answers (slowly) 
and does not contain the latest updates, and 1 is up-to-date. This mirror is 
in France and I am on Vancouver Island.

2. There appear to be unresolved conflicts between some updates. For example, 
if you do a clean install of 7.2, then select all the available updates, you 
get conflicts between leafnode and inn, and between various Zope components.

As a dumb user, I'm not really sure what is meant when I get an error message 
saying something like "leafnode_version_n conflicts with inn_version_n". What 
are the downsides / benefits to choosing "force update" when I get this 
message?

Aside from being a bit unfriendly, it concerns me that if you were to use an 
out-of-date mirror, you might not realize that you weren't getting the latest 
security updates.

M.

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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design

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