Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

> > If an update aborts due to recent factory changes, you can just restart.
> > Maybe you need that a second and a third time, but usually an update needs
> > only a limited time, so if you continue you will succeed.
>
> Well, it every time takes me a few hours, as it tends to be here, then doing
> it three times is not really fun. I managed to do it with two times for the
> main Factory update and then doing about 200 button clicks for the Packages
> from KDE4:UNSTABLE (after needing a click for every one of them to step over
> during the install run already) and updating them from the software
> installation module again.
>
> > On ftp5.gwdg.de, last night one update lasted from 01:11 h to 02:58 h MET.
>
> Well, I did run my update from about 10-11pm until 3-4am MET that night. I
> posted the mail when the second Factory update run started to complain on the
> missing UNSTABLE KDE4 packages.
>
> This was just one of my problems with that update run, see
> http://home.kairo.at/blog/2009-01/living_on_the_edge for more fun. ;-)

So it seems you got it to manage the factory hassle the usual way: just 
restart, maybe more than once, but in the end you will succeed.

So what...


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)

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