-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Russbucket wrote:

SUSE 10.0, smart-addons-0.42-11.guru.suse100 smart-0.42-11.guru.suse100 smart-gui-0.42-11.guru.suse100 smartmontools-5.36-1 smart-debuginfo-0.42-11.guru.suse100 smart-ksmarttray-0.42-11.guru.suse100

BTW, you don't need the smart-debuginfo package, you can remove that safely, as root: rpm -e smart-debuginfo

Several Questions as a new smart user:

The smart mailing-list might be more appropriate ;) http://labix.org/smart (see section "Mailing List")

1.) I notice in etc/smart/channels the packman .channel lists some mirror channels. How do you get smart to use the mirrors?

It's a patch I wrote and include in my smart RPM (the .guru. one). It's far from being perfect as the only thing it does is add those mirrors when it adds the channel. Still helpful to create a useful setup for less experienced smart users though. You can see the list of mirrors configured in smart with smart mirror --show Mirrors in smart just work in URL matching, they're not related to channels. Example: smart mirror --add http://software.opensuse.org/download/ \ http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/ Every time smart will have a download that starts with "http://software.opensuse.org/download/..." in the URL, it will consider using "http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/..." as a mirror. Smart automatically rotates mirrors and computes how good they perform for you. It takes the average download speed and the number of failures into account. After a few runs, smart should use the mirrors that work best for you.

2.)What does it mean during a channel update that it is stalled? I see this on several of the channels.

That the download performance on those servers is not very good. Be patient, after a few runs smart will pick the faster servers automatically. You can tune the socket timeout value for smart. Depending on your internet connection, you might want to make it somewhat higher. It influences smart on seeing a connection as "stalled": smart config --set socket-timeout 10 (those are seconds and the default is 30) Personally, I have a 4mbit ADSL connection and use 10 seconds as the socket timeout value. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFctomr3NMWliFcXcRAlD5AJ4z19QPhrZhhQwkLt1hJbZY+5aLwwCeJjkM ZDD6ukna/UwBenkEnwg8iss= =shP7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org