up2date problems (use a mirror)

[Adrian Likins]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:18:02PM -0700, Tyler larson wrote:
> For a long time, I've been having a whole lot of trouble downloading
> updates. Files download *very* slowly and often arrive corrupted[*] (and
> therefore fail GnuPG verification). Even downloading using a web browser
> gave dismal results.
> 
> I switched to a mirror, and everything works fine... better, in fact,
> and more reliably than it ever did with RedHat's server.
> 
> If any of you are having trouble with up2date or yum, I'd suggest
> editing your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file and selecting a mirror from
> the list [http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html] as a first
> course of action.
> 
> It might even be worth while to add some functionality to up2date to
> download a list of mirrors and choose one (possibly interactively with
> the user, CPAN-style) rather than always using RedHat. The general
> public isn't going to know how to do all this manually. And if you
> browse the fedora-list archives, you'll see that people are really
> feeling the pain.
> 
	client with mirror support should be hitting rawhide any
time now... 

Adrian