On Wednesday 04 October 2006 22:52, you wrote:
William Gallafent wrote:
Is it really necessary to refresh all the repositories when one starts the tool to manage them?
No, it's not necessary. And that's why, as I recall, whenever you add a new source it is automatically Enabled but Refresh is set to Off. ;-)
Hmm, not true I think - I replaced all my mirrors yesterday evening (with more reliable ones, I hope), and although the 10.1 installation sources appeared with refresh disabled, Packman and the updates repository have refresh enabled immediately. I suppose that really I was asking "Is it necessary to refresh _any_ of the repositories when starting YaST Installation Sources?" - when some of those repositories have disappeared, it takes a long time to time out, which is frustrating when one is starting the tool specifically to remove those ones!