new 'fetch' warnings & repo errors on update?

[Mauricio Teixeira (netmask)]

Em Sex, 2006-11-10 às 06:24 -0800, snowcrash+smart escreveu:

> 	warning: You must fetch channel information to acquire needed filelists.

This just means that Smart couldn't download filelists.xml.gz from the
repository.

> error: Failed acquiring information for 'XFCE':
> error: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/repositories/X11%3A/xfce/SUSE_Linux_10.1/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
> timed out

Looks like the server is kindda full.

> 	(1) IS this a real problem, or just a noisy waning?

Real problem from the repository POV. Noisy warning from the Smart POV.

> 	(2) are the repo failures typical? frequent?

You should ask SUSE.

> 	(3) if a problem, is it with smart itself, or a result of repo issues?

Repo issues.

> 	(4) either way, what to do about it?

Try again.

> thanks.

You're welcome.

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