Please change your repository mirror!
Posted: 1. Oct 2013, 15:21
As you have probably noticed by now, the server that hosted the main Salix repository at salix.enialis.net has had a lot of downtime. Unfortunately, that server was set as the default after a new Salix installation and most users would never think of switching to another. To make matters worse, the server maintainer hasn't done much to fix these problems. The main Salix repository has since been moved to a new server, but most users still have that server set as the one to use in their configuration files. The upside is that now we have more repository mirrors than we ever had before. So, please edit your /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc and /etc/slapt-get/slapt-srcrc configuration files and change every instance of
to one of the servers found in the following wiki page:
http://docs.salixos.org/wiki/Repository_mirrors
Servers closest to you geographically are probably going to be the faster ones to use.
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
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.
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http://salix.enialis.net
http://docs.salixos.org/wiki/Repository_mirrors
Servers closest to you geographically are probably going to be the faster ones to use.
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
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:
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su
spkg -u salixtools-1.7.0-noarch-1gv.txz
reposetup