Re: Please change your repository mirror!
Posted: 18. Oct 2013, 20:47
New mirrors, yay! Awesomeness! Here's to hoping this leads to more widespread Salix adoption. 

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They will be once I update the package. Also reposetup will update the list of mirrors on the fly...antmon wrote:Great Work! GREAT DISTRIBUTION!
Why is the China and Portugal repos not in reposetup. I'm using xfce 14.
The link above returns a "404 Not Found" error message. Apparently, gapan updated this utility to ver. 1.8.0, so the new link should be: http://download.salixos.org/i486/14.0/s ... ch-1gv.txzgapan wrote:To make this change easier, I have written a new system tool, reposetup. It is now in the repositories (or should be when all mirrors have synced), but if you're using enialis, you'll never get it as that server is not being updated. This new tool is included in an updated salixtools package, so if you want to use it, download the new package from the following URL:
http://download.salixos.org/i486/14.0/s ... ch-1gv.txz
Therefore the CLI instructions for running reposetup should now read:gapan wrote:This package will work correctly only on Salix 14.0.
Once you have it, open a terminal window in the same directory where you downloaded it and run:which will bring up a dialog to select a mirror.Code: Select all
su spkg -u salixtools-1.7.0-noarch-1gv.txz reposetup
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su
spkg -u salixtools-1.8.0-noarch-1gv.txz
reposetup
No. You already chose a repository mirror during installation.Sasquatch wrote:Is any of this relevant to my new 14.1 install?
Cool. Thank you.gapan wrote:No. You already chose a repository mirror during installation.Sasquatch wrote:Is any of this relevant to my new 14.1 install?