[wellylug] Bad Mandrake 10 mirrors

[Jonathan Harker]

Jamie Dobbs wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:38, Damon Lynch wrote:
> 
> 
>>Gnome 2.6 is due in cooker -- I haven't checked the mirrors myself this
>>last week.  They won't be updates -- you'll have to keep in sync with
>>cooker if you want Gnome 2.6, and the inevitable updates to that :)
>>
> 
> How stable is cooker these days (for day to day use)?
> I can't even seem to find any reliable cooker mirrors at the moment -
> care to recommend me some?
> Is there a simple command I can run when I have a reliable mirror to
> update the whole system?
> 
> (sorry for all the questions :-)

For whatever reason, Mandrake have changed the layout of their mirrors. It 
took me a while to figure out what was going on, as I couldn't connect for a 
day or two. For instance, the path is now

   ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/

instead of

   ftp://ftp/lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/

There is an article at mandrake club here, which has been "non-optimally" 
translated into English:
   http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1888

Content follows for non-members:
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Since a few days you must have notice various troubles regarding mandrakelinux 
mirrors. Some of them are empty, some of them have a completetly different and 
unusual layout.

To make a long story short, we wanted to create a more logical strcuture, but 
I completely failed to switch smoothly.

Fortunately things are now getting better

To be more precise, since quite a lot of time, several monthes and maybe 
years, a lot of users and club members were complaining about a lack of logic 
into the various mandrakelinux ftp sections: Mandrake-devel, Mandrake, 
Mandrake-old, Mandrake-iso... It was not very easy to find out a specific 
thing without looking into the various directories.

So, now that the 10.0 is finished, I decided to make the switch to the new 
structure previously discussed and to progressively make mirrors using it. As 
you may have notice, the progressive part was quite a disaster.

I deeply apologize for the inconvenience, I know that it is very frustrating 
when something is not anymore at the same location without any previous 
warning. My idea was to create a new structure, and then announce and 
advertize it so that mirrors switch one by one. Unfortunately I made some bad 
guesses on the main reference machine, and when I realized that some mirrors 
were loosing all the mandrakelinux tree, it was too late.

Anyway I hope you will not blame me to much, and consider it as one of the 
minor inconvenience of a distribution which try to evolve for the good of its 
customers and users.

You will now found two main sections on the mandrakelinux mirrors: devel and 
official.

devel contains all the currently still developed distribution, namely the 
Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community, and of course Mandrakelinux Cooker. You will 
also find the associated ISOs files.

official contains all the past official release of mandrakelinux, 9.0, 9.1, 
9.2, and soon the 10.0 Official with their correspondig updates and the 
official ISOs.

All you comments are of course welcome.

UPDATE Fafane:
I will put the list of the mirrors for community/devel (10.0-community) and 
official (10.0-official) when it will be possible.
On tuesday because easter week-end is begining.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Happy chocolate eggs and bells :)