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

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
+