Lee Wiggers wrote:
I am indeed a newbie.
Can someone explain to me why sometimes I have to change
mirrors 5 times to complete an update.
I have been learning since 8.0. I have not yet learned
why the update process is so badly organized.
Tell me a mirror lags real time............I understand
Tell me mirrors are down for various reasons.......I
understand
Tell me that it is EVERY GD TIME I UPGRADE......I don't
understand.
The hardest single act in Linux for me has been upgrade.
Rarely do I have a problem-free experience with urpmi in
any of it's magical forms.
Am I stupid?
Lee
Lee,
I don't think you're stupid, but that's just me. My guess is that you're
using bad/slow mirrors - ie., mirrors which are typically slow or
overworked.
Here's the ones I use for Mandriva 2006. If that's the version you're
running, copy/paste these into your /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file and delete
the others that aren't working. Then update them all so that you can
receive the new package lists. Copy them verbatim into your file.
contrib
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/2006.0/i586/media/contrib
{
hdlist: hdlist.contrib.cz
key-ids: 78d019f5
update
with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz
}
main
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/2006.0/i586/media/main
{
hdlist: hdlist.main.cz
key-ids: 70771ff3
update
with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz
}
updates
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/2006.0/main_updates
{
hdlist: hdlist.updates.cz
key-ids: 22458a98
list: list.updates
update
with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz
}
Then save the file and either run the update command in Mandriva's
Control Center, or use the following commands in a console/shell;
urpmi.update main
urpmi.update contrib
urpmi.update updates
If you're running a different version of Mandriva, you'll have to adjust
the lines in your config file accordingly and your best bet is to use
the ftp links in my example above and then navigate to the version
you're using. Then copy/paste the change into this adjusted config file.
Don't forget that you need to run the update command once in a while to
make sure that your lists are the same as the ones on the mirror.
HTH's
Dan LaBine
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