[WBEL-devel] Re: [WBEL-users] Security updates

[John Morris]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Milan [iso-8859-2] Ker¹lįger wrote:

> as there are troubles with WBEL mirrors and with release delays, I
> suggest to update all needed components by hand. This mean download from
> http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/updates already released updates:

The problem was too many people trying to download direct.  Which is why I
have killed http access to the whole /pub tree as of this afternoon.  And
why the rsync appears to have finished between here and NCSU.  Really
didn't want to have to do that, but it was the only way.  After I get the 
latest batch of errata posted I'll switch it back on.

Longer term I'm really wondering how to get new versions out.  The only
idea that seems to have the potential to really solve the problem is DVD's
via overnight delivery.  Looking at this upcoming respin, assuming one set
of SRPM images for both arches, it will have nine .iso files without
considering the possibility of DVD images plus all of the x86_64 files
also appearing down /pub/3.0/en/os/x86_64.

The bandwidth of the postal service is potentially huge... but the latency 
isn't all that good.  :)

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