Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (10/03/2002 10:58)
>Hi! > >I'm having trouble with rpmdrake, when I try to urpmi packages, the >program hangs and when I try and install packages from graphical >interface it seems to take forever, although they do eventually install. >Can anyone explain the reason for this slowness? And tell me what I need >to do to correct it. Please cc me a copy of email reply to my home >address.. It's just general slowness of public mirror servers, for which there is no cure; Mandrake 9.0 and Red Hat 8.0 being issued within a week of one another has led to machines all round the world being reduced to iron filings as the CD images download ... slowly ;) An enhancement I'll suggest for 9.1 is that you can specify a server- specific timeout (if the server doesn't respond within N seconds, go on to the next server to get details from) as this timeout is, evidently, hardwired. To see what actually happens without the GUI hiding the details use the command line (as root): urpmi.update -a (to update all package lists from all servers); urpmi.update <server> (to update the package list from server <server>); urpmi --auto-select (to update all packages which are updateable). Alastair ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________
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