On 2006 September 30 14:02, John Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 13:14 -0600, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> > It seems Mandriva is up to their usual tricks of changing the paths on
> > the mirrors with no warning. I noticed it on Proxad when I started
> > getting errors trying to update. It'll probably hit the other mirrors
> > soon enough if it hasn't already. All of the "MandrakeLinux" directories
> > have been moved to "MandrivaLinux" (would've thought that was done long
> > ago, but it wasn't). For example, updates moved from:
...
> > Ron
>
> About the second problem first, it's probably because the older source
> is still configured, somewhere, as an update source.

No, I did a search and replace on /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg using emacs. The old 
sources are overwritten:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep update /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
updates 
ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/official/updates/2006.0/main_updates
 
{
  hdlist: hdlist.updates.cz
  list: list.updates
  update


> The issue around paths is one that, really, Mandriva has no control over
> except on their own site.  The other sites are free to do as they wish
> with things and we often run into this with some sites when a new
> release is coming out.  It's easy to blame Mandriva for this but I've
> experienced the same thing with FC, Red Hat, the Ubutu clan and
> others.
>
> It all boils down to you can't control what you don't own, I'm afraid.

Yeah, I don't know for sure who's responsible. But one of the previous times 
it happened I was told it was a change by Mandriva, propagated automatically 
through the mirrors. Which is what mirrors are supposed to be - if they're 
not copying things verbatim, it's not really a mirror is it?


> John

Ron
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