[WBEL-users] NCSU dropped the box

[Robert Moskowitz]

Thanks I made these changes.  Will see how it goes.

It resulted in the following site being used as the 'channel': 
whitebox.wicks.co.nz

At 09:25 AM 1/3/2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > 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/
>
>
>
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