[Mageia-dev] Mageia Cauldron: Bad RPM's while update via urpmi

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 2 18:17:19 CEST 2011


On 2 July 2011 18:05, andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net> wrote:
> David Walser a écrit :
>>
>> Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>>>
>>> This explains it!
>>> Change the mirror, you are using ibiblio which has been reported
>>> numerous times in the forum and the mailing lists to be syncing very
>>> badly.
>>
>> I don't know about badly, but I found it to be a little bit behind.
>>
>>> If you are located in north america, use mirrors.kernel.org which is
>>> fast and reliable.
>>
>> Has anyone had success using rsync with mirrors.kernel.org?  When I tried
>> it, the path to mageia kept toggling between mirrors/pub/mageia and
>> mirrors/pub/pub/mageia every time I used it.  It's like it's behind a load
>> balancer where one of the machines behind it has the wrong rsync
>> path configured.
>
> I just checked.  I think that they haven't finished setting up the mirror.
> - They don't list Mageia in the sites they mirror.
> - Mageia's ftp and html links for them don't work.
> - It is the only rsync mirror in Mageia's list that doesn't list their
> bandwidth nor their source.
>

ftp://mirrors.kernel.org has been working fine here for ~1 month now.

> You could try mageia.c3sl.ufpr.br (in Brazil), which is one of the faster
> rsync mirrors.
> My mirror in Canada uses it.
>
> --
> André
>



-- 
Ahmad Samir


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