[WBEL-users] WBEL Vs Centos ? :-S

[Kirby C. Bohling]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:03:59PM -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> 
> mailing-lists@hughesjr.com said:
> [snip]
> > The last WBEL update pushed to the NCSU server (at least 6 hours ago) was
> >  from 10/10/04
> 
> John released the patches on 12/1.  Any delay after that is an NCSU issue,
> not a Whitebox issue.

Hmmm, I tried to resist, but I have to point this out.

That's a difference that isn't a difference to an end user.  It
might not be Whiteboxlinux.org's fault (specifically anyone involved
at the library), but it surely is an issue for any
Whiteboxlinux.org user.  I think you and Johnny are using different
meanings for the word "Whitebox".

It has been one for me.  So much so that I created a trouble ticket
with NCSU to resolve the issue.  Just like somebody did no more then
21 days ago to solve the problem when *ALL* of the updates
disappeared.

I can either wait for them to show up at NCSU (which it appears
every other single mirror of WBEL mirrors from that, every time it
has problems everyone has problems, and they have had problems at
least 5-6 times in the 9-10 months I've used WBEL), or I can grab
them from whiteboxlinux.org directly.  If I do the latter, and
everyone else does it also, we'll beat the heck out of the T1, and
no one can get the updates (least of all NCSU).  I remember how
that used to work.  It's why the links got killed, and the default
yum configuration got changed to not use whiteboxlinux.org.

At some point, someone should to convince one or two of the major
mirrors to talk with John Morris about getting direct rsync access
and pulling the mirrors straight from whiteboxlinux.org.

	Thanks,
		Kirby