[Fwd: [Cooker] Primary Mirror in chaotic state]

2000-12-29 Thread Ron Stodden
All users of all_rsync.pl: The chaos on the primary Mandrake cooker tree server has now been rectified by MandrakeSoft. You should now undo the patch below to reactivate the RPM upnaming trick to reduce your download time. Ron Stodden wrote: As a temporary solution for users of my

Re: [Cooker] Primary Mirror in chaotic state

2000-12-29 Thread Ron Stodden
All users of all_rsync.pl: The chaos on the primary Mandrake cooker tree server has now been rectified by MandrakeSoft. You should now undo the patch below to reactivate the RPM upnaming trick to reduce your download time. Ron Stodden wrote: As a temporary solution for users of my

Re: [Cooker] Primary Mirror in chaotic state

2000-12-27 Thread Ron Stodden
Ron Stodden wrote: Warly, The Mandrake primary mirror is in a chaotic state. Old RPMs are not being deleted! This seems to happen periodically - as I recall, the last time it was a permissions problem on the server. This mess is still the case. As a temporary solution for users of

Re: [Cooker] Primary Mirror in chaotic state

2000-12-25 Thread Antony Suter
Ron Stodden wrote: [snip] Please, Mandrake, Get It Right! A simple "Please Mandrake, set it right." would have been enough. File servers and mirrors have there own problems that show up from time to time. Be patient and allow time for the problem to be fixed. Perhaps you could modify your

Re: [Cooker] Primary Mirror in chaotic state

2000-12-25 Thread Ron Stodden
Antony Suter wrote: Perhaps you could modify your script to be more robust so it would handle these types of problems. It is GPL, so you, or anyone, can expand it and tell us all what you have done. That's the 'bazaar' cllective philosophy of Open Source. This part of my script is from

[Cooker] Primary Mirror in chaotic state

2000-12-21 Thread Ron Stodden
Warly, The Mandrake primary mirror is in a chaotic state. Old RPMs are not being deleted! This seems to happen periodically - as I recall, the last time it was a permissions problem on the server. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]