Am Di 4.Februar 2003 16:41 schrieb KMcLauchlan@chrysalis-its.com:
By the way, anybody, is the ftp.kde.org site faster than the ftp.gwdg.de site?
Both are located within the WIN (Wissenschaftsnetz, German scientific network). That is, if you are coming in via a transatlantic line they should perform comparably. p15104972:~ # traceroute ftp.kde.org ... 5 ir-frankfurt2.g-win.dfn.de (80.81.192.222) 2.918 ms 3.007 ms 2.960 ms 6 cr-frankfurt1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.80.37) 3.365 ms 3.682 ms 3.794 ms 7 cr-koeln1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.18.86) 7.201 ms 7.265 ms 7.375 ms 8 ar-koeln2.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.84.3) 7.347 ms 7.327 ms 7.473 ms 9 kr-bonn.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (131.220.254.2) 8.844 ms 9.102 ms 9.222 ms 10 sr1-rz-vlan3.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (131.220.1.249) 9.954 ms 10.062 ms 10.034 ms 11 subraum.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (131.220.60.97) 9.980 ms 9.968 ms 9.922 ms p15104972:~ # traceroute ftp.gwdg.de ... 5 ir-frankfurt2.g-win.dfn.de (80.81.192.222) 3.058 ms 3.024 ms 2.998 ms 6 cr-frankfurt1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.80.37) 12.930 ms 13.186 ms 13.066 ms 7 cr-hannover1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.18.182) 8.192 ms 8.162 ms 8.140 ms 8 ar-goettingen1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.88.74) 10.488 ms 10.462 ms 10.440 ms 9 c12012-int.gwdg.de (134.76.249.201) 10.826 ms 10.942 ms 10.912 ms 10 134.76.249.204 11.195 ms 11.311 ms 11.307 ms 11 ftp.gwdg.de (134.76.11.100) 11.238 ms 11.223 ms 11.202 ms As you can see, both traceroutes pass into the Win at hop 5 from my POV of the net. Both routes turn to different targets from hop 7 on down within the WIN. If you observe different performance, it will be load-related and depends more or less on the time of day and the load level of the local WIN within the Koeln/Bonn region compared to the Hannover/Goettingen region.
What is so special about KDE3.1 that it is more resistant to installing than any of 1000 other packages that successfully went in?
The procedure I described worked flawlessly first time I tried. One of the reasons I do not use apt or apt4rpm is that my Debian experience with apt was so abysmal. Half of the time Debian apt left me with a dialogue with rougly the meaning of "installation of package ... failed. You have the choice of a) never installing a package again or b) deleting all packages that have ever heard of the new package, including your X server and all software development packages you can think of." only worded differently. Using rpm and a shell script I can at least preview what will happen to my system and control which dependencies I chose to ignore or which ones I have to work around. Kristian -- http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/wishlist/18E5SVQ5HJZXG