Amen Brother Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:49 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Latest kernel won't download... > > > -----Original Message----- > [snip] > > > The text of the message is: > > The package kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl does not have a > valid GPG signature. It has been tampered with or corrupted. > Continue? > ------------------------------------------------- > > You say "no, don't continue", and try again. > > It's just like the shampoo bottle says.... wash, rinse, > repeat... there's no end. :-) > > I went through about 19 iterations.. each one getting just a > little bit further, until lo and behold it all worked. Good > thing I'm not using Windows Update... that works first time, > and I wouldn't appreciate how difficult the task of getting > updates really is. :-) > > All sorts of chatter about choosing mirrors blah blah > blah.... and people wonder why Linux is not quickly adopted > on the desktop.... > > What I'd like to see is that the default server simply > redirects requests to a random mirror, or a mirror in "round > robin" fashion.... then when all the FC users try to up2date > at once, requests are dispersed across mirrors. If the > "expert" user wants to configure a specific mirror that's > fine... no change there.... but for all the newbies that > "just want an update applied", things might work better. And > how much horsepower would the default server need if all it > does is redirect traffic. As new mirrors are added, or old > ones die... the default server needs a little update and no > change to any of the install base out there. > > Sounds good to me.... and it's got to be better than what happens now. > > My opinion, and it's worth every penny you paid for it. :-o > > Cheers, > Don Russell > >
