As far as I can see, we're completly up to date with the main mirror...
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daveb at dopey:~/rsync$ sudo rsync --timeout 600 -rvlHtS --progress --delete
mirror.physics.ncsu.edu::whitebox /ftp/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/
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receiving file list ...
10628 files to consider
10600 files...
wrote 94 bytes read 440793 bytes 125967.71 bytes/sec
total size is 29243161160 speedup is 66328.02
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As for syncing straight from them, do remember that they don't have a huge
amount of bandwidth, or at least they didn't a while back, which is why they
were asking people not to submit them to /.
If you can show me what's wrong, i'll gladly fix it ...
Dave
"Paul Kelly :: Blacknight Solutions" wrote:
>>Hi John,
>>Try baseurl=ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386>>Regards,
>>Paul
>>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On
>> Behalf Of John P. Looney
>> Sent: 07 April 2004 12:02
>> To: Irish LUG list
>> Subject: [ILUG] whitebox mirror
>>>>>> Anyone know of a decent whitebox mirror ? The Esat one seems
>> bust of late...
>>>> [root at postie root]# yum update
>> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
>> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released
>> Updates Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
>> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>> File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
>> File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
>> File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
>> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
>>>> [root at postie root]# cat /etc/yum.conf
>> [main]
>> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>> debuglevel=2
>> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>> pkgpolicy=newest
>> distroverpkg=whitebox-release
>> tolerant=1
>> exactarch=1
>>>> [base]
>> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch -
>> Base
>> baseurl=http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$release>> ver/en/os/$basearch
>>>> [updates-released]
>> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch -
>> Released Updates
>> baseurl=http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$release>> ver/en/updates/
>>>> john
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