On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 06:41 -0500, Damon Register wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Paul Gardiner wrote: > >> > >> I've been using http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/update/10.2. > > > > Run away from that mirror like your hair is on fire. > > Its frequently in-operable or out of date or overworked. > I am glad you posted that. I just installed openSuSE 10.2 last > week and haven't had any major problems but I am rather disgusted > with the online updates. It seems that I am too often getting > various error messages about the servers. I can come back a few > hours later and it works fine. In addition to the server mentioned, > I find that the oss and non-oss ones are bad too. This weekend I was > trying to install some packages and got an error message about > http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/media.1/directory.yast > I checked > http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/media.1 > and found that directory.yast was listed but it was a bad link. A few > hours later it was working again. In my not so humble opinion the > current online package management stinks. So, to answer the original
Excuse me, but what does the "online package management" have to do with broken mirrors? > Damon Register /Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
