-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 houghi wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:19:34AM +0200, Alexander S. Usov wrote: >> As far as I see they are somewhat less crippled with respect to multimedia >> software, but I am not sure whether I am looking for trouble by by letting >> them replace the packages from the base system. > > The `danger` is that those you replace are being locked, wich means they > will not be updated with YOU. To see what foles are affected, open yast,
Yes, that behaviour is still a little weird for me. That's something that must be changed in YaST2. [...] >> And one more question -- what is the status of the apt repository on >> ftp4.gwdg.de? At the moment it is somewhat out-of-sync with the >> corresponding >> yast repositories, and even more some of them are still missing (like >> supplementary/KDE and supplementary/GNOME). >> Is it a temporary glitch caused by a huge load on ftp4? > > It should be the same as the YaST repositories as they use the same file. They don't. They target the same RPM files (an APT repository has symlinks to the actual RPM files outside of the APT repository tree), but they have completely different repository formats and metadata. So, yes, they can be out of sync, most specifically because - as far as my own repository (guru) is concerned: - - I generate the YaST2 repository metadata on my own server, before it gets pulled by ftp4.gwdg.de - - the APT repositories are generated by ftp4.gwdg.de, after pulling packages If, indeed, ftp4.gwdg.de is under heavy load, it takes ages to generate the APT repositories (they're quite slow and I/O intensive). On the other hand, my YaST2 repository is always up-to-date, as far as it has been pulled properly by ftp4.gwdg.de And here we run in another issue we have at the moment: because of a nasty bug in the latest rsync version (2.6.6) - apparently only triggered when under extreme load - the nightly sync of my packages onto gwdg.de is broken. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Eberhard and I will have to find some time to try fixing that, although we couldn't find any workaround until now :\ Hopefully the load will decrease of ftp4.gwdg.de, which should solve that issue as well. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v FOSDEM 2006 -- 25+26 February 2006 in Brussels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDTMOur3NMWliFcXcRAnY/AKCTDYPr33t7Fy4l+QFGZXNEKGpN8wCePW2m Zg4RbKd7fqmvd0eWYYxXJbw= =mN2O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
