Re: mirrors.columbia.edu failoure

On Tuesday 12 January 2010, David wrote:
>On Tuesday 12 January 2010 03:23:04 pm Gene Heskett 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.
>
>I had the exact same problem.
>I have no idea why rpmdrake doesn't cycle.
>Anyway, I removed all of the media sources from the media manager.
>I went to easyurpmi.zarb.org set the options to manual and entered the
> media information in thru the command line in the same manner as in
> earlier releases of Mandriva.
>Haven't had a problem since.
>DBW

Sounds like a winner, if it will work.  I have gone to the rpmdrake displayed 
list and checked them all, and it then it re-pulls every repo's package list 
fresh, but doesn't change a *&^%#@ thing.

If rpmdrake, available in the kde menu's is not the correct tool, and MCC 
seems similarly helpless too, methinks its file a bz time.  urpmi also seems 
blind to many repo's too as its incapable of finding the only ups management 
tool that will work with my big Belkin once nut is also installed and 
working, and that is knutclient here in fedora, but isn't findable by urpmi.

Bugzilla.  Where do I do that?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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