[Cooker] MandrakeUpdate dies with devel RPMS

2000-12-04 Thread paul
Hi all, I've been quietly waiting for this problem to disappear, but it persists so I write to you all. I've been trying to use MandrakeUpdate to download and install the latest RPMS of some selected software, but the program just dies when downloading the list. It starts to build the list, but

Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate dies with devel RPMS

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Olsen
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, paul wrote: I've been quietly waiting for this problem to disappear, but it persists so I write to you all. I've been trying to use MandrakeUpdate to download and install the latest RPMS of some selected software, but the program just dies when downloading the list. It

Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate dies with devel RPMS

2000-12-04 Thread Vincent Meyer, MD
paul wrote: Hi all, but the program just dies when downloading the list. It starts to build the list, but then dies. Paul, I've noticed this too. Seems that when the mirrors get busy this happens. I've found that if I keep retrying, eventually the list will "stick" and I can

Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate dies with devel RPMS

2000-12-04 Thread Jean Meloche
On Monday 04 December 2000 20:11, you wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, paul wrote: I've been quietly waiting for this problem to disappear, but it persists so I write to you all. I've been trying to use MandrakeUpdate to download and install the latest RPMS of some selected software, but the

Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate dies with devel RPMS

2000-12-04 Thread Jean Meloche
On Monday 04 December 2000 19:44, paul wrote: Hi all, I've been quietly waiting for this problem to disappear, but it persists so I write to you all. I've been trying to use MandrakeUpdate to download and install the latest RPMS of some selected software, but the program just dies when

Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate dies with devel RPMS

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Olsen
I have a question that may or not be relevant... What is the size of the RPM database when this happens? The reason I ask is that I have only seen this when parts of the RPM database get very large. Just a thought... On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Jean Meloche wrote: On Monday 04 December 2000 19:44,

Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate dies with devel RPMS

2000-12-04 Thread Jean Meloche
On Tuesday 05 December 2000 00:05, you wrote: I have a question that may or not be relevant... What is the size of the RPM database when this happens? The reason I ask is that I have only seen this when parts of the RPM database get very large. Just a thought... [root@rocks rpm]# ls -l