On Saturday 03 April 2004 06:05 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
> A couple of days ago, Warly, The Mandrake release captain, posted to the
> Cooker Mailing List that the structure of the mirrors will be chaning soon
> to accomodate the finalization of the Mandrake 10.0 release and the
> continued development that will be going on in the stable community branch.
>  Here is his original post:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=108084290223337&w=2
>
> The reason I am posting this is that as the mirrors start to synch up over
> the next few days, you may find your urpmi/rpmdrake spitting out errors
> when you try to istall something or update.  This will simply be because
> the paths on the mirrors will have changed, and  consequently, your urpmi
> sources will have to be changed to accomodate this.
>
> For instance, updates for 9.2, which is now in
>
> ../mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS
>
> will become
>
> ../Mandrakelinux/official/updates/9.2/RPMS
>
> This is going to be a welcome change as the old mirror structure stinks and
> this will help the Mandrake mirror system more reliable and easier to use.
> For those of you that are going to complain about this, please consider the
> long term benefit despite your short term pain.
Thanks, for  the heads up. I am beginning to think that 10.0 is the best of 
the best and will want to burn some disks to hand out to friends. Don't want 
anything out of date to go into newbier than me hands.
-- 
Dennis M. linux user # 180842

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