Suse 11.1 Updates not working correctly?

[revengineer]

Hi,

I just got my new machine with a fresh installation of opensuse 11.1

The first thing I do in such cases is update the whole box.
That's what I did. During the process I got some errors that update files could not be found.

e.g.
http://download.opensuse.org/update/...i586.delta.rpm

This just redirects to other mirrors like http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/op...i586.delta.rpm

where my updater simply gets 404: not found.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Thanks

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by revengineer

Hi,

I just got my new machine with a fresh installation of opensuse 11.1

The first thing I do in such cases is update the whole box.
That's what I did. During the process I got some errors that update
files could not be found.

e.g.
http://tinyurl.com/yh7nzj3
yh7nzj3 ->
http://download.opensuse.org/update/...i586.delta.rpm

This just redirects to other mirrors like http://tinyurl.com/ykeqv4o
ykeqv4o ->
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/op...i586.delta.rpm

where my updater simply gets 404: not found.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Thanks

Hi
It's easier to hardcode a local mirror, else talk to the contacts at
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ as it seems to be a mirror issue.

Here is the mirror list;
http://mirrors.opensuse.org/

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[genanr]

The mirrors do not seem to be mirroring. For example the opensuse site has cifs-mount-3.2.7-11.4.1.rpm in the update/11.1/rpm/x86_64 directory, yet ftp.utexas.edu latest cifs-mount is cifs-mount-3.2.7-11.3.2.x86_64.rpm. How are we suppose to use the mirrors when they are not mirroring?

[Chrysantine]

Seems like some of the mirrors are having trouble, most likely this'll clear out in the next 24 hours as they resync.

[hendersj]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:46:02 +0000, genanr wrote:

> The mirrors do not seem to be mirroring. For example the opensuse site
> has cifs-mount-3.2.7-11.4.1.rpm in the update/11.1/rpm/x86_64 directory,
> yet ftp.utexas.edu latest cifs-mount is
> cifs-mount-3.2.7-11.3.2.x86_64.rpm. How are we suppose to use the
> mirrors when they are not mirroring?

What I did was run the updates using zypper - it seems the delta RPMs
were not syncing to the mirror I'm using, but most of the actual RPMs
were there.

Using "zypper up", you can ignore the error messages on the delta RPMs
and pull the full RPM instead.

Jim



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