On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:59 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:35, Malte Gell wrote:
Thanks for the URL, but these are just mirrors, as long as ftp.suse.com is down they will not provide any new updates
True
and YOU / susewatcher will tell "no updates availabe" and might create a wrong sense of security...
When susewatcher fails to connect, it doesn't report "no updates available" it reports "failed to connect" and turns the little green dot yellow. And your sense of security is really no different than what you enjoy a day or two *before* these updates are announced and released, right?
I thought that yellow meant a non-security related patch was available, red a security related patch and green was no patches available. I clicked on the "yellow" button just now andwhat I got was a non-security patch: wnck (Window Navigation Construction Kit library).
Please try to keep the expected occasional 'hiccup' in the propagation of this service in perspective. It is comparable to distributing DNS updates, no? Sometimes these things take more time than others.
I think this is the reason why YOU creates an empty /etc/youservers in the case ftp.suse.com is unavailable.
I think it's because it can't write a current list of prospective update servers when a connection attempt fails, so it opts to clear the list out instead of potentially writing garbage or retaining stale data.
For what ever reason, the thinking is beyond me, as I can see reasons for not touching the file at all when it would fail to connect.