Hi Allan, I am holding the upgrade till now on your advice. Total Download Size: 679.66 MB Total Installed Size: 1811.77 MB Is it safe to Upgrade now? Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/02/10 13:01, Steve Holmes wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:42:32AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: >>> >>> mirrors.kernel.org in fact is not a single mirror. is an alias to a >>> geolocation subdomain and from there is serving from closer >>> geographically position(in theory). >>> for you maybe you hit in an up to date server. >> >> I don't know but I've been doing multiple 'pacman -Syuw' and each time >> I seem to be able to download one package and then all the rest fail >> and the response says the file is supposedly not found. I'll tell >> you, with 83 files to get and only getting one each time, this is the >> worst update experience I've ever had. It usually goes so smoothly >> but this time around is terrible! > > Well, there was a news item saying it would be best to wait a couple of days > to do an update... but no-one ever listens to us. > > Allan > > >