[WBEL-devel] Mirrors are still out of sync

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner@NASA.gov
Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:56:42 -0400


On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 09:15 -0400, Roger Peña Escobio wrote:
> Mensaje citado por Milan Ker¹láger <milan.kerslager@pslib.cz>:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have seen updates on http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/updates/
> > before this directory gets closed (Jun 1 2004):
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> does any body know how to download from the original site?
> 

Can't unless you're a mirror.  From whitebox-users
"Re: [WBEL-users] Yum Update Error":

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:05 -0400, William Hooper wrote: 
> Jeff Maze said:
> > Hello,
> >     Just tried a YUM update and received the following error:
> >
> >         Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> >         Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
> >         retrygrab() failed for:
> >         http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386/headers/header.info
> 
> Please check the archives.  Access to the updates at whiteboxlinux.org has
> been restricted to the mirrors.
> 
> >     I have a http://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386
> > entry to my yum.conf file; it's currently commented out.  If I uncomment
> > it
> > from the [base] and [updates-released] entries, will it first try the
> > whitebox site for updates and then switch over to the mirror if theres a
> > problem?
> 
> You need to comment out the whiteboxlinux.org entries, they will not work.
> 

Phil