[WBEL-users] Up2date and WB3.0 Mirrors.

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:41 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Brian Thies wrote:
> > Greetings fellow users:
> > Over several months, the up2date gui interface almost never worked, I 
> > started using yum to update my machines. However, I would much rather 
> > use the gui interface.
> > Using the command line for up2date, I made a discovery about why the gui 
> > doesn't work.
> > The mirrors for WB3 are badly out of date. only about 40% of the mirrors 
> > that whitebox-mirrors points to are current. For example: 
> > ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu is being deprecated. jach.hawaii.edu doesnt have 
> > a 3.0 directory. and phantomhosting.com has no whitebox directories at all!
> > Any idea of who to talk to to get the mirror list updated?
> > 
> 
> try http://www.centos.org/
> 
> is WBEL even being maintained anymore ?

Appears pretty dormant at best...

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Thanks to John and the library for getting me, and many others, started
on an EL distro with WBEL3; but see link above and others in this thread
for instructions on moving to CentOS.  The move from WBEL3 -> CentOS3
move was pretty painless for me long before good instructions were
available, and CentOS 4 has been great - timely updates, active
development team (thanks Karanbir), and very good community support.

Phil