Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:22:49PM +0100, Andreas Hanke wrote:
> Marcus Meissner schrieb:
> > You are getting progress bars, right?
> > 
> > Its likely just your slow network connection.
> 
> But it's a deadlock problem and a must-fix for the next release.
> 
> There is _no_way_ to get the configuration fixed if it's broken (e.g. by
> a bad and slow mirror, bad connection or the like).
> 
> - If the connection to a mirror is slow, there is no way to disable it
> because YaST doesn't give the user access to it before the metadata are
> downloaded, which can take up to 24 hours if an unlucky user managed to
> get a _really_ slow mirror like ftp.opensuse.org.
> 
> - If the user tries to trick YaST into giving him access by going
> offline, it doesn't work either because then YaST thinks it's a good
> idea to hide the remote sources.
> 
> The only way I'm aware of is a brute-force attack, going into
> /var/lib/zypp/db/sources and deleting the XML file directly.
> 
> It's broken and can't stay this way.

Is there a bugreport for this?

Ciao, Marcus
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