On Saturday, June 10, 2006 @ 2:51 PM, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Saturday 10 June 2006 21:35, Greg Wallace wrote:
In previous releases of SuSE, when you ran online update, you were presented with a screen where you could pick the mirror you wanted to go to. Now, it appears that that functionality has been replaced with the separate YaST Installation Source menu item. If you add additional mirrors, you still aren't presented any option when you actually run YOU, so, I assume it just goes with the first source in the list (I notice you can change the order of those via "Up" and "Down" buttons. What I'm wondering is, if the topmost mirror is down at the time you run YOU, will YOU automatically try the next one in your list? Otherwise, I guess you have to manually go into Installation Source and move them around until you get one that works. The old way, you just select a different mirror from within YOU and off you'd go. Just wondering if anyone knows how this is supposed to function.
Perhaps you could simulate a host that is down? Try this as a installation source: http://localhost/pub/. Put it at the top. Issue a 'rcapache2 stop' so apache is not running. Now your host is down (at least the http part ;-) ).
Try to install a package, and see what happens. When you're done, issue 'apache2 start' if needed.
Cheers,
Leen
Well, I am not even running apache and all of my update sources were http and have been working, so YOU must not need apache2 to access these http sources. I did add an ftp source, so if there is some other way to disable http, I could now try that test. Also, I tried to add a bogus source so I could promote it to the top of the list just to see if it would get bypassed, but the system (naturally) verifies that the target is valid before allowing you to add it, meaning I couldn't do that. Greg Wallace -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com