Re: mirrors.columbia.edu failoure

On Tuesday 12 January 2010, 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!
>
Well, one thing is for sure, somethings broken, and we sure can't fix it even 
if the updates might be in the repo's using the facilities at hand.  Chicken 
and Egg situation.

Thanks Trish.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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