Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 13:10 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
I haven't experience repository hell, at least not in the single instance of retrieval hell I cited for CentOS yesterday, with Ubuntu.
And what repositories are you using outside of Ubuntu's repositories? I assume you're just using Ubuntu's official repositories, because they include all sorts of things that CentOS does not.
You don't get repository hell from just the official project's repositories. You start experiencing repository hell when you add repositories.
<much drivel snipped>
Bryan,
I think what Collins was attempting and, in my book did so very well after the 2nd round of responses indicates that the whole problem is of a mechanical nature, just as he stated. You can't obtain *anything* if the connection is not there, whether it be legal, illegal, a port, a binary, a source or anything else. The circuit lets him down. That was pretty obvious. He also stated in his post that he did not have a solution, but wondered if adding equipment would help. I don't know how in the world these simple topics get so convoluted and involved when a simple statement and observation are made. Others may or may not have connectivity problems such as he. I have seen my share of connectivity problems myself, but if it does not work this time, I wait and try again later. There is *nothing* in the whole CentOS distribution that I *have* to have immediately. Maybe nice, but the world is not going to stop if I don't get it.
Collins, I hope I didn't misquote your initial post, but it was pretty simple for me to see it was a connectivity issue, and not at all related to repositories, ports, and sources.
'nuff said......