You probably went through the period where the mandrake repositories got reorganized. Yes, they did change the directory structure on all their repositories when 10.0 came out, but they also changed their entire structure of how their distribution worked. Red Hat did the exact same thing for RHEL. If you want a reliable urpmi repository, try the one I use: raven.cslab.vt.edu. It's located nearby at Virginia Tech, it works well, and it's been very reliable for me.
Yes, my attempts were right after the release of 10 community, so therein lies my frustration. Not a happy introduction. This frustration is not enough to get me to switch away from Mandrake however. I still use it. I'll give it another go.
Thanks for the pointer to a decent server. I was about ready to break out netselect and do some manual server selecting.
From what I know, apt has to download the entire package info list each time it updates too. Are you saying that yum does not?
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Yum downloads a flat file index of packages on the server, and then incremental updates of the RPM headers. It can also be run "while you sleep", and then cached.
Joseph Still a Mandrake lUser.
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