[WBEL-users] NCSU dropped the box

[Johnny Hughes]

> At 11:25 PM 1/2/2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:05 -0700, Erik Williamson wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > John contacted me about the NCSU dropping out bit - I gather that
>> gatech
>> > will be picking up the slack as the mirror that the rest of us sync
>> > from.  I'll be switching mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca to point there
>> tonight.
>
> As I said earlier, I tried to do an up2date last night but it would not
> get
> past retriving packages to update.
>
> Right now the dialog box is pointing to ftp.opensourcesmirrors.org
>
> The box behind this dialog is the skipped packages box which is empty.  A
> message alert on the bottom of the screen indicates 223 updates available.
>
> Any idea why this is hanging?  What file to I need to change with what
> content?
>
> Of to the dentist; be back in an hour or so...
>
Here is a yum.conf file I have posted...

http://www.hughesjr.com/wbel/yum.conf.txt

These sites seem updated from that list (that I can verify right now):

http://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/linux/whitebox/
http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/whitebox/
http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/whiteboxlinux.org/

If you use the entries from those sites in updates and os section of
linked /etc/yum.conf, you should be able to update OK.  I can't check the
sites outside the US/Canada from my present location, so some of the
others might be good as well.

You could also those sites (or one of them) in your
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file ... similar to this (each entry is one
line):

yum wbel-base http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386/

yum wbel-updates http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/