Re: mirrors.columbia.edu failoure

Patricia Fraser wrote:
> 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!
>
>   
I would say Trish is correct all the way, and the only thing I might add 
is that I use "mcc" (without the quotes, all in small case letters, in a 
text console), to start the "mandriva control center" as the way to get 
to the add and remove sources stuff...

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