You are also assuming the SuSE mirrors are fed and cared equally and the updates propagate quickly. The design of the Internet was originally that of robustness during (nuclear) attack, not the eagerness of SuSE users of the Next Great Update. Adam -----Original Message----- From: "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@acm.org> Subj: [SLE] Reliability of SuSE mirrors Date: Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:03 pm Size: 868 bytes To: suse-linux-e@suse.com I've always assumed that the SuSE mirrors -- at least the ones that claim to be complete -- were as reliable as the SuSE site itself. But I had a frustrating experience doing a KDE 3.5 update using mirrors.kernel.org and Yast. I kept getting a complaint that the kdebase3 package (and a number of others) couldn't be found, though a number of packages did get installed. So I finally tried going to ftp.suse.com instead and the update worked correctly -- all the packages that I was missing before were there and were installed. Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any opinions on mirror sites versus the SuSE site itself? Paul -- 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