On Tuesday 07 March 2006 22:32, Malte Gell wrote:
But we were talking about using mirror URLs for YOU/susewatcher manually put into /etc/youservers
Which is nothing unusual. I don't understand the upset, frankly. We've always had the ability from the main YOU menu to select or define alternative servers. When the regular one goes down for a bit, for whatever reason... software patches included <grin>... you try one or two others until you succeed. No big deal.
and in this case you do get a green dot creating a wrong sense of security.
Only if you misinterpret the meaning of the yellow dot. It doesn't mean you are missing out on updates, necessarily. It only means you were not able to connect and poll for the existence of applicable updates. There's a big difference. And, to the best of my knowledge, no one at SuSE now SUSE or Novell has *ever* promised 100% 365 x 24 x 7 delay-free YOU patch deployment. I don't even think it's reasonable to expect that (unless you're paying for it, of course.) I think the system works great and I'm extremely happy with it. If the recent 'hiccups' continue and become a trend then we 'make noise' and deal with it at that time. Meanwhile, IMHO, we should just move on to more interesting topics and refrain from baseless criticism. regards, Carl