On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:04:57 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 12 Aug 2005 19:57, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > There have been lots of upgrades to 2005LE, but just about a week > > ago the mirrors seem to be broken (again). For example, if you go > > here : > > ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/official/updates/L > >E2005/RPMS/ you'll see the latest, like cups, gpdf, xpdf and > >kdegraphics > > etc... all marked ved a suffix -102. > > whereas others, like your surfnet.nl, aren't updated. > > > > What's worse, http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ seems broken too, at least > > for 2005LE. > > > > To me the whole lot looks very messy right now, what with the same > > packages being located multiple places on the mirrors, like > > duplicates in 'updates' , 'main' and 'main_updates'. Furthermore, > > the packages under '2005LE' directories wont' install on my 2005LE > > system without dependency hell.... > > > > Of course you can always do the whole lot manually, if you have the > > time, that is. I haven't. > > > Kaj, because the proxad mirrors are problematic at the moment I went > to easyurpmi.zarb.org this morning and set up new sources. They are > working perfectly. On the advice of several listers I'm using > Warwick.ac.uk. > > Anne FWIW I updated 10.2 from Proxad yesterday with not probem. Regards, E. David I. Taylor, Taranaki, New Zealand - (RLU #389384) 'the place to be - beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea' using a Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (LE 2005) for i586 kernel 2.6.11-12mdk 08:59:05 up 6 days, 30 min, 1 user, load average: 1.10, 1.08, 1.03 ------ A random thought/quote: ------ Q: What is printed on the bottom of beer bottles in Minnesota? A: Open other end.
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