On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Amir Tal wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to make all the updates my system need's manually. I like to > see what I am doing, instead of counting on a wizard to do it for me. > But today I decided to check out may mandrake 8.1 auto update util (from > the mandrake control center). Its working fine,
Not for me. I have had too many screw-ps with that. One bugs that keeps repeating is that it considers downloading a package, creates a zero-sized file, and then decides not to download it. Next time it will consider downloading that package, it will immdietly fail (giving a "download failed" error, or something similar. Woraround: delete the zero-sized file from (I believe, bu not sure) /var/lib/grpmi/archive It is recommended to run it from a terminal, so you can have more information on what it is doing. > but damm slow. There are > a list of mirror's to choose from, but most of them are .nl or .jp which > are not very close to us. What about IGLU? http://linux.org.il/pub/distibutions/Mandrake/updates (or something lsimilar) Is it up-to-date? BTW: what about the debian mirror? -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
