2011/9/9 Alejandro López <[email protected]>: > > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Oliver Burger <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Am Freitag, 9. September 2011, 14:23:37 schrieb Alejandro López: >> > - Do we need PLF for Mageia? >> No, there is no need for plf. Since Mageia is no company that needs to >> look >> after the leagl circumstances in countries it wants to sell its product, >> Mageia can provide those packages itself. >> They are in the so called tainted repositories. > > So I just need to enable these4 repositories. Goooood. Thanks. > > > >> >> > >> > - Are there plans to have a mirror of the Mageia repositories hosted by >> > free.fr? This would be great. >> That depends on free.fr, not on Mageia. > > But someone representative could possibly contact them asking if they are > interested... ;-) > > >> >> And what is the difference of a mirror by free.fr and a mirror somewhere >> else? > > That Free is my ISP and I can access those files at high speed as it's their > internal network (no need to leave to the internet). > > When updating my old Mandriva installation (Mandriva repositories are > mirrored by Free) I use to reach the bandwidth limit of my connection. When > I moved to Mageia (used the urpmi method) it took me the whole night to > upgrade while with Mandriva it used to take a few hours. Of course I won't > die because of this, but it would be good to have it, not only for me, but > also for a few millons french people. > > > Alejandro.
Which mirror did you use for the upgrade?
