[wellylug] Problems with updating Suse 9.3

[David Harrison]

With SUSE your time localisation field is very important when it  
comes to doing online updates believe it or not.
The localisation setting is used to identify nearby mirrors so  
ideally you want it set to Pacific -> Auckland/Wellington

The update process will first hit the primary SUSE update server in  
Germany which will return a list of local mirrors (the closest being  
in Australia).

If you are having issues with the update process try changing your  
time localisation to Australia (or to NZ if it is not already) and  
rerun Online Update in Yast.


David


On 2/06/2006, at 11:53 AM, Carl Klitscher wrote:

> ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/suse works for me... There is  
> also some
> info on the web indicating that proxies etc. need to be set  
> correctly (if
> used).
>
> Carl
>
> wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz wrote on 06/01/2006 10:05:23  
> PM:
>
>> I have just had xtra broadband installed and so decided to check  
>> updates
> for
>> my copy of Suse 9.3 using YAST.  As it was unsuccessful in finding  
>> any
>> mirrors automatically, I tried entering a number of different mirror
> sites
>> manually, but keep getting the error message "patch information  
>> retrieval
>
>> failed".  Has anybody had similar problems?  Can anybody suggest a  
>> mirror
>
>> site that is known to work?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Colin
>
>
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