Re: mirrors.columbia.edu failoure

Hi Gene,

> because its apparently, and regardless of how many times I reload
> the package lists, superglued to using only mirrors.columbia.edu as
> the src to pull from.  

I had something similar happen; I went to the easyurpmi site and
instead of allowing it to automagically work out which version and
architecture, I picked 2010 and x86-64 from the drop-downs, and then
added the official media via the button (a dialog came up obligingly
in Firefox and asked me if I wanted to let the package manager do its
thing; I said yes; it requested the root password which I duly put
in, and away it went). 

Next I opened the Add Software thingummy (root password again), and
went to Options, Software Media Manager. This gives a nice dialogue
with all the various media in a list with check-boxes beside, so you
can select/deselect the ones you want to use. I have a list that has
the cdrom first (it was a dvd, but I won't quibble), and then Main,
Main Updates, Main32, Main32 Updates, Main Testing, and like that
through Contrib and Non-Free, which is the last set in the Official
list. I then have the PLF repos, which acts like a sort of a break -
useful in this case, because now (after my visit to easyurpmi listed
above) there's another complete set: Main2 and on down.

I've left everything ticked that was ticked; and the easyurpmi
action has ticked (in the second set) Main, Main32, Contrib and
Nonfree, and their updates (8 media in all).

It now works fine. I have absolutely no understanding of why, but I
*think* it's looking somewhere else for $MIRRORLIST than it was
before. 

Cheers!

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