LW> In the four years or so I've been a newbie, I haven't been this
LW> frustrated.  What's really a pain is that I don't really like oo but
LW> I'm pretty hardheaded.

LW> I have added every club mirror, made sure that they were enabled one
LW> at a time, and did a rpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi -v --auto-select
LW> --wget

LW> All updates were installed except oo, which was listed.  I went
LW> through the same process with each mirror, one at a time, with the
LW> same result.

LW> I don't expect to be spoon fed and in fact enjoy a meaningful
LW> challenge, but can't stand stupidity from myself or anyone else.

LW> I don't understand why urpmi can't be configured to recognize it's
LW> own failure and move to the next mirror on my list and try there.

LW> My two hour venture in futility could have been reduced to a simple,
LW> "Oh well, looks like oo isn't available right now." and gone on to
LW> something less exasperating.

LW> Guarantee a newbi newbi would have just assumed mdk was a screwup
LW> and gone on to another distro or back to the evil empire.

LW> FWIW

LW> Lee


Yes, one of the things that annoys me about urpmi is that the hdlist.cz has to be 
present, whereas with YUM (yellow Dog Update Manager), you can use any directory full 
of RPMS and it will build the hdlist automatically, so the mirror doesn't have to 
maintain an hdlist. Not that big of a deal, but it sure would be nice to, for 
instance, add Florin's Mandrake Network Firewall cooker to urpmi, but I can't since it 
doesn't have an hdlist :)

/rant off


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