[WBEL-users] Updates go away?

[David Mir]

I did email ncsu and received a reply:

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It should be fixed sometime next week.

Elliot
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On Thursday 18 November 2004 04:38 pm, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:06:03PM -0500, Samuel Lewis wrote:
> > Sorry if this has already been discussed, as I just joined the list
> > today.
> >
> > Has something happened to the various mirrors maintaining updates?  I
> > attempted to up2date and received nothing but errors.  In looking
> > around, it looks like the mirrors have stopped carrying the updates.
> > Any reason why?
>
>  I'm not sure what precisely is going on.  They we're down a
> couple of days ago.  It looked like they came back yesterday, and
> they are gone again today.
>
>  I have yet to see anyone post what they got as a reply from
> either the Whitebox folks (Vicki and John have been disturbingly
> silent on the issue), or from the people who run the NCSU mirror.
> So I'm not sure exactly where the problems are.  I'd be fairly
> shocked if the NCSU mirror is having problems (they mirror a lot of
> stuff, I'd assume they have it fairly well automated).  However, I
> have yet to hear any of the people from beau.org to say the where
> they believe the problem is.  They sound pretty busy running a
> library.
>
>  I've been bothered enough by this that I've been looking for
> WhiteBox alternatives, but unfortantely none of the alternatives
> make me happy enough to warrent a change (CentOS, TaoLinux, and
> Lineox all made my research list).  E-mail me off list if you want
> to know my objections to each project.  If you know of another
> alternative, e-mail me, again in private.  I'm not hear to say bad
> things about any of the RHEL rebuilds.  I just want to find one I am
> comfortable running at work.  WBEL has been slowly slipping away
> from that status.  I'll probably continue to run it at home, if only
> because I really like the helpful nature of this list.
>
>  WhiteBox itself has been more then stable enough, it just seems
> that actually getting updates has been an ongoing battle literally
> from the first day I tried to use it.  That's the problem with it
> being supported by a small public library.  I greatly appreatiate
> it, and have nothing but good things to say, with the exception of
> availability of updates.  I'm getting close to just rolling my own
> internally at my company just so I have some control over the
> process.
>
>  Thanks,
>   Kirby
>
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