10 useful yhings to do after installing Karmic

[IKT]

I noticed internode had the same issue which I brought up here:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1294027

I felt (especially during the days of heavy updates) that the mirror should
be rsyncing maybe twice a day just to keep up.

It's harder to test when one of the first things to do is make sure your
packages are up to date.


- IKT


On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Daniel Mons <daniel.mons at iinet.net.au>wrote:

> Paul Gear wrote:
> > If your ISP has a good local mirror [1], it's worth switching to that in
> > System > Administration > Software Sources.  If that doesn't work, try
> > another Australian mirror from the list.  I find iiNet's stays pretty
> > well up to date and is reasonably reliable lately.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > [1] You can find out whether it's "good" here:
> > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
>
> Particularly around release time, iiNet have a bad habit of falling
> behind (often up to 3 days from the main mirror).  Not that I blame them
> (they're providing the service for free, after all).  What happens is
> the main manifests are usually up to date, but attempting to
> install/upgrade packages results in a 404 when the exact version of the
> software the manifest points to is missing.
>
> As before, the solution to release-time 404s for me continues to be
> "wait until 30 days after a release".  The other upside to that is any
> release-day bugs (which objectively speaking are common, despite the
> effort that goes into betas and RCs) are generally squashed by that
> time, and upgrades/new installs tend to go quite smoothly.
>
> No matter what the software, it seems early adopters continue to be my
> army of personal beta testers.  And I thank them for the service. :)
>
> -Dan
>
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