Kde package update problems. - actually local mirrors

G.Wolfe Woodbury ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us
Mon May 21 19:57:18 UTC 2007


On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:32:52AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> >Mirrors appear to have a hard time keeping up to date with the new merged
> >Rawhide (especially now that they suddenly have all of extras-development
> >coming in as "new" packages). Even usually reliable mirrors like
> >sunsite.mff.cuni.cz don't have Rawhide fully updated right now.
> 
> It took my poor residential dsl local mirror a whole week to deal with
> it, just re-pulling x86 binary and src rpms.
> 
> -jef

The "easy way" was to copy all of extras-development into the Fedora directory
then rsync with the "--fuzzy" option enabled.  Only some of the rsync sites
fully support fuzzy matching, but the ones I use do.

Took about 15 hours total, residential DSL here too.

-- 
Wolfe




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