Hi, On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Alexander S. Usov wrote:
Maybe this question seems a little stupid, but I would like to ask it anyway.
Does it makes sence to keep the system up-to-date with external repositories? The ones I am going to use are basically guru, packman and (a bit of) rbos.
As far as I see they are somewhat less crippled with respect to multimedia software, but I am not sure whether I am looking for trouble by by letting them replace the packages from the base system.
And one more question -- what is the status of the apt repository on ftp4.gwdg.de? At the moment it is somewhat out-of-sync with the corresponding yast repositories, and even more some of them are still missing (like supplementary/KDE and supplementary/GNOME). Is it a temporary glitch caused by a huge load on ftp4?
Yes. Repository generation needs more than 24 hours currently (was usually only some few minutes), and during that time, some packages get renewed (but not recognized)... "By design" we will never get this totally in-sync, but currently we see very very clearly how bad it can be if the servers first have to build metadata before the files will be usable. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)