Hi Andreas, your posting is not about Factory in any way, as far as I can see, and should probably go to another place. I would suggest opensuse-security; there it is of high relevance. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:57:12AM +0200, ab wrote:
i just recently discovered that some older 10.2 box is completely out of sync as the updates/patches repository it got subscribed to during install time back then is only having patches from year 2007.
this is total madness. somebody gotta keep this list clean and only distributing reliable and current mirrors.
example is: <http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.2/repodata/> (current)
<http://ftp.tu-ilmenau.de/Mirrors/ftp.suse.com/update/10.2/repodata/> (way outdated)
i even re-ran the yast online-update configuration and the novell initscript or whatever it was called (/usr/bin/suse_register ?) re-subscribed me to this lagging mirror several times over again :(
That is something that we can change. Could you please open a bug report about it? I can't fix it myself, but you can assign it to me (poeml at novell com) and I can route it to someone who can fix it.
argh. :(
Sorry about your frustration.
p.s. i somewhere read about zypper updates also coming to older suse systems. is there a way to profit from newer zypper updates on these older suse/opensuse systems that maybe newer zypper builds feature a better and more intelligent handling of repositories and being in-/outof-sync with the main suse sources.
there has to be some sane way of getting rid of unreliable downloadlocations. thanks.
Yes, there is a sane way. This is something which we fixed with 10.3. 10.3 will only send you to mirrors which actually get updates, and in fact the update server will not redirect at all for certain files. Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development