gslapt in 13.37 cant update

[ChuckRU]

Hello, everyone, I'm trying to bring my old Salix up to-date but gslapt no longer will update the packages. I use Salix current as my everyday OS, but wanted to keep the older version a little longer, I admit it has been a few months since I booted the 13.37 up and updated, now it fails to download anything. I checked the URLS under the gslapt pref tab, and it still shows the same ones listed on the WIKI page. It will fetch the file list but when I try to update, it lists a package name and says HTTP response code said error. I do see that it attempts to download from a German ftp site, but I can't find where to change that. Also, the slapt-get file lists the proper URLs for salix, am at a loss to understand where it is finding this "de" url. I've searched the forums, the wiki and can't see anybody else who's had this trouble. Any help appreciated, I liked the Salix 13.37 but just got busy and let it get outdated-it needs 90+mb of files to catch up.

[gapan]

Can you post the output of

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slapt-get -u
slapt-get --upgrade

[ChuckRU]

Can you post the output of

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slapt-get -u
slapt-get --upgrade

Hi gapan, good to see you are still around. Here's the "txt" of both:

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slapt-get -u= oot[tony]# slapt-get -u
Retrieving package data [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/]...Cached
Retrieving patch list [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/]...Cached
Retrieving checksum list [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/]...Cached
Retrieving checksum signature [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/]...Cached
Verifying checksum signature [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/]...Verified
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/]...Cached
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/extra/]...Cached
Retrieving patch list [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/extra/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/extra/]...Cached
Retrieving checksum signature [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/extra/]...Cached
Verifying checksum signature [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/extra/]...Verified
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-13.37/extra/]...Done
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.37/]...Cached
Retrieving patch list [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.37/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.37/]...Cached
Retrieving checksum signature [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.37/]...Cached
Verifying checksum signature [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.37/]...Verified
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.37/]...Cached
Reading Package Lists...Done

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root[tony]# 
+++ slapt-get --upgrade:
root[tony]# slapt-get --upgrade
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following packages have been EXCLUDED:
  kernel-firmware kernel-headers kernel-huge kernel-modules kernel-source 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  guile 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bash ca-certificates curl dhcpcd flash-plugin freetype glibc gnupg gnupg2 
  gnutls libXfont libgpg-error libjpeg libtiff lm_sensors mozilla-firefox 
  mysql ntp openssl patch samba sudo wget xorg-server xorg-server-xephyr 
  xorg-server-xnest xorg-server-xvfb 
27 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove, 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 98.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 111.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] y
1/28 Get http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/slackware64-13.37/ guile 1.8.8-x86_64-1 [1.5MB]...Failed to download: HTTP response code said error
root[tony]# 

86_64-1 [1.5MB]...Failed to download: HTTP response code said error
root[tony]# 

The first time I tried to update it last night it was naming "libksba" when it errored, so I found that one and installed it, now its naming "guile", so I think it probably is just going down the list one by one. Hate to have to upgrade it that way.

[gapan]

When posting command outputs, please put them inside code tags. This time I did it for you.

Anyway, you need to switch to a different mirror. Edit your /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc file and use one of these instead of salix.enialis.net:
http://docs.salixos.org/wiki/Repository_mirrors

[ChuckRU]

Thanks gapan, I will switch mirrors and give it a whirl. It's been a long time since I was on the forum, I don't know what code tags are, but I'll find the explanation someplace here, and do that in future. Thanks for looking!
Edit: After changing the mirror site for slapt-get>still get the same response :HTTP response code said error. It still downloads package info
but won't or can't dl the packages, and I still see gslapt attempting FTP from the German website. I don't know what config file has that, so I can't change it.

[ibka]

I have the same problem.
The problem is the "http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/ ... re64-13.37" address it doesen´t exists.

[gapan]

Ah yes, I see now. I fixed it in the main repo. It will take some time to propagate to mirrors, but somewhere in the next 24 hours it will be fixed for you too.

[ChuckRU]

Thanks gapan, I was beginning to wonder if I should just give up and reload. I did manage to get some packages last night after I changed mirrors a second time.