Sherpa Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 [root@localhost david]# urpmi.addmedia main ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz added medium main examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.updates.cz] computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"... ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz found probed hdlist (or synthesis) as ../base/hdlist.cz ...retrieving done ok, the actual downloading does not take long at all, but the "retrieving done stage takes forever, there is no reason for this i have a 2.53GHz processor, and i have 1 GB of ram, and 1.2 GB of swap space, so i dont know what is going on.... using ksysguard, i can see that there is only minimal cpu usage, so.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 It depends largely on the speed of your mirror. Sometimes it takes me quite some time to update everything via urpmi, mostly due to the server I use being out of connections. Other times it just flies through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted June 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 too bad this site only does plf, i wish it did everything else.... the plf list that i get from here is always the fastest.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 Try changing your sources. Even though I'm in the U.S. I use club-internet in Paris. I have no speed problems at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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