Gslapt going round in circles

[DaveCox]

Hi,
been using Salix for a while and recently changed laptop so took advantage and installed Salix 14.1_64 (Xfce). Everything has been pretty good, except that over the last 2 weeks Gslapt has constantly swapped between Salix14.1_64 and Salix14.1_64_Slackware14.1 versions of about 35-39 packages.

This happens every couple of days and usually I get 2 notifications from Gslapt within an hour of eachother, one moving me to Slackware14.1 packages and the second back to Salix14.1_64 packages.

Is this known behaviour? What could be causing it, have I not configured something right? Can anyone here point me in the right direction to troubleshoot this?

Thanks in advance,
Dave.

[laprjns]

Post a copy of your slapt-getrc file from /etc/slapt-get

[DaveCox]

@laprjns, thanks for the reply, here's a copy as requested:

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# Working directory for local storage/cache.
WORKINGDIR=/var/slapt-get
# Exclude package names and expressions.
# To exclude pre and beta packages, add this to the exclude:
#   [0-9\_\.\-]{1}pre[0-9\-\.\-]{1}
EXCLUDE=^aaa_elflibs,^aaa_base,^devs,^glibc.*,^kernel-.*,^udev,^rootuser-settings,^zzz-settings.*,-i?86-

# The Slackware repositories, including dependency information
SOURCE=http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-14.1/:OFFICIAL
SOURCE=http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/slackware-14.1/extra/:OFFICIAL

# The Salix repository
SOURCE=http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/14.1/:PREFERRED

# Local repositories
# SOURCE=file:///var/www/packages/:CUSTOM

It's probably a simple fix, but then I'm a simple user! Also, there's a slapt-getrc.new file in the same directory, is that normal?

Ta.

Dave.

[gapan]

This looks perfectly fine. I wonder if it's some trouble with the mirror. Run

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sudo reposetup

and choose another one. There should be some mirrors in England and Ireland which might even be faster for you.

[DaveCox]

Thanks Gapan, I've just run that and I'll see how it beds in over the next week. I'll get back to let you know how I got on.

Ta.
Dave Cox