Re: [trinity-users] Repositories for TDE

Timothy Pearson composed on 2015-10-05 00:40 (UTC-0500): I have lots of installations of various versions of openSUSE, *buntu, Mageia, Fedora, Debian and others, but approximately more openSUSE than all the rest combined. Routine openSUSE update process here, which can happen any day of week and any time of day or night, is: # zypper ref # zypper up During ref, zypper pauses to notify when pearsoncomputing.net is inaccessible. After answering ignore, zypper asks if the TDE repo should be disabled, to which my answer is always no. These happen twice, one pair for arch, one pair for noarch. So, it's routine that I notice, and am bothered, when it cannot be accessed. There's no easy way I've discovered to determine in advance whether to expect it to be accessible. Unlike http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ or http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/debian/, redirects typically inhibit or outright deny attempts to check availability. Most of my installations exist purely for testing purposes, used few hours per year. The machines on which they live need to be physically rotated in and out of workspace in order to be used. When any update is prevented by an inaccessible repo, progress halts, so I can't help but notice. This sort of begs the question: why isn't TDE mirrored in the places where we get our distributions and updates, major mirrors like kernel.org or gwdg.de or the various universities providing mirroring service? What would it take to make it happen? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/