[ale] ALE server made the SUSE mailing list

[Greg Freemyer]

ftp.ale.org maintainer,

Per the below the SUSE 10.2 updates on ftp.suse.org are out of date.

FYI: Marcus below works for suse/novell and is charge of the suse
update release process so he should know what he is talking about.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Dec 29, 2006 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [opensuse] No updates?
To: Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net>
Cc: Opensuse <opensuse at opensuse.org>


On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:39:42AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I've installed 10.2 from the DVD I made from the iso image.
> I've configured update sources, yet as ancient (in computer
> time, anyway) as 10.2 is, zypper always tells me there is
> nothing to do when I try it:
>
> Restoring system sources...
> Parsing metadata for 20061219-202641...
> Parsing metadata for SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates...
> Parsing RPM database...
> Summary:
> Nothing to do.
>
> I see it saying it is looking at metadata for updates, so
> it must think it knows where to find some. A service-list
> says:
>
> # | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Name                    | URI
> --+---------+---------+------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 | Yes     | Yes     | YaST | 20061219-202641         | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/
> 2 | Yes     | Yes     | YUM  | SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates | http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse/update/10.2
> 3 | No      | Yes     | YaST | 20061213-191726         | ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/
>
> Are there really no updates yet from the original DVD iso image?

This server (ftp.ale.org) does not seem to be updated.

Use another one... (ftp.gwdg.de for isntance).

Ciao, Marcus
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