Re: mirrors.columbia.edu failoure

Well I understand your frustration, I too am running mandriva x86_64 version
and have had problems also. One is it no longer informs me of new updates
and I have to do it from the control panel.

One of the things I did was in the control panel remove all the sources and
redo them. I also added the "plf" sources and everything seems to be running
reasonably well except for what I mentioned above.

Can you not uncheck the source you want to get rid of? If you have not been
able to do any upgrades you are missing some "rpm" updates which made mine
run better.

Good Luck
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey Guys & Gals;
>
> I am beginning to lose my patience with an mdv-2010-x64 install.
>
> For weeks now I have been unable to use the package manager rpmdrake that
> is
> available in the kde menu's to install anything 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 just rebooted to it
> 15
> minutes ago, ran it, and refreshed the whole list, but nothing I select to
> be
> installed can be installed due to this particular sites apparently
> permanent
> failure, and rpmdrakes refusal to go cycle through the rest of the mirrors
> to
> find the package I want.
>
> Right now I have the impression that if yum can do it, why can't rpmdrake?
>
> Seems like a heckofagoodquestiontome.
>
> I need detailed instructions as to how I go about blacklisting that site
> and
> making it use other mandriva mirrors please.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>
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