On Sunday 29 January 2006 09:59 am, Lee Wiggers wrote:
> Seriously
>
> Again this morning,
>
> 1.    I updated my mirrors on the club site
> one by one because that's the way it is offered there.
> Including a pita cut and paste for each requiring a
> password.
>
> 1.5 hour
>
> 2.    I reviewed my sources and temporarily disabled
> the old "tried and true" to favor the club junk.
>
> 15 minutes
>
> 3.    I did a simple update with "'urpmi.update -a
> --force-key --wget && urpmi -v --auto-select --wget
> --auto --keep' most of which translates to, "this
> bullshit is exasperating."
>
>  half hour
>
>
> 4.    Response was 20 lines like this:
>
> /2006.0/i586/hdlist.cz
> ...retrieving failed: wget failed: exited with 1 or signal 0
>
> So, again.........., I waisted a goodly part of my Sunday
> morning trying to keep current in one box.
>
> Multiply that over the 11 boxes in my office and I think
> trying to maintain a Mdk network is an exercise in
> futility.
>
> I have actively campaigned among my friends since 8.0,
> and now I wouldn't recommend this distro to my worst
> enemy.
>
> My dad used to say, "People beat their heads against the
> wall because it feels so good when you stop."
>
> Watch me stop.
try this script
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>
> Lee
>
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