On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:22:49PM +0100, Andreas Hanke wrote: > Marcus Meissner schrieb: > > You are getting progress bars, right? > > > > Its likely just your slow network connection. > > But it's a deadlock problem and a must-fix for the next release. > > There is _no_way_ to get the configuration fixed if it's broken (e.g. by > a bad and slow mirror, bad connection or the like). > > - If the connection to a mirror is slow, there is no way to disable it > because YaST doesn't give the user access to it before the metadata are > downloaded, which can take up to 24 hours if an unlucky user managed to > get a _really_ slow mirror like ftp.opensuse.org. > > - If the user tries to trick YaST into giving him access by going > offline, it doesn't work either because then YaST thinks it's a good > idea to hide the remote sources. > > The only way I'm aware of is a brute-force attack, going into > /var/lib/zypp/db/sources and deleting the XML file directly. > > It's broken and can't stay this way.
Is there a bugreport for this? Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
