Ok, to explain this a bit more. There is _two_ ways to install packages via ftp using YaST. You probably edited the file which acts for the other ftp install option. 1. You set up YaST to install via ftp by default. This configuration is kept in: /var/lib/YaST/install.inf You can hand edit it but it is not recommended. You can also edit it by starting YaST and go Installation Settings -> Install via FTP. The settings there get saved in the before mentioned text file. If you chose ftp as default then everytime you go to: Package Management -> an ftp install window will pop up. This is quite annoying actually. 2. In case you do not have ftp as default installation medium you can still install packages via ftp. Package Management -> Install Packages Then this will pull the configuration saved in /var/lib/YaST/update.inf I tried both configurations out and by hand editing both files you change the configuration (depending on which approach you are using). mk
From: Paul Abrahams
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Yast1: changing the default FTP update location Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 12:00:05 -0400 Purple Shirt wrote:
I complained about this before too. They should create a list of mirrors and allow us to switch to one of our choice. But SuSE is still so CD centric.
Check out this file:
/var/lib/YaST/update.inf
at the end it has reference to default ftp server.
I did locate that file and changed both DefaultSrcPatchFTP and DefaultInstsrcFTP. It didn't seem to help. Did it work for you?
A puzzle about that file is that it lists more than one potential ftp site but there's no mechanism I've seen in Yast for choosing from the list.
Paul Abrahams
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