[Klug-general] Mandriva updates

[Michael. E. Rentell]

Thank you for that info Margot. I was unaware of that site. Most useful.

This morning I woke up and remembered to put my thinking head on. Hence 
I remembered that my laptop computer hosts Mandriva 2006 so I fired that 
up and checked which update site that was pointing at. It was

ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mandriva/official/updates/2006.0/main_updates

And that is subtly different from what was on my desktop computer (2005LE).

I pasted that 2006 address into the updates page and it worked fine. 
Dozens of security and bugfix updates.

Shoulda thoughta that first, before pestering the group.

But many thanks for the thought of support.

MikeR
in Folkestone


Michael. E. Rentell wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> I am using Mandriva 2005LE (otherwise 10.2) because the later versions 
> do not see my scanner and the earlier one does. I want to update all 
> the applications and the Mandriva update settings point to a site 
> which no longer exists - presumably superseded.
>
> I am currently pointing at:
>
> rsync://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mandriva/official/10.2/updates
>
> Does anyone know the full rsync address of the current update site so 
> that I can update my somewhat outadate installation.
>

There are no more updates for LE2005 - not since 13 July 2006 when it 
expired - see this page:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/productlifetime

As Mandriva 2007 is nearly ready, your best bet is probably to stay 
where you are for the moment & then update to 2007 once it is released.

-- 
Regards
Margot
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