web site ammendments for yum
Troy Dawson
dawson at fnal.gov
Tue Feb 3 22:13:28 UTC 2004
Eric Rostetter wrote:
>Quoting Raphael Clifford <raphael at clifford.net>:
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>>b) The sentence "After installing apt or yum, please see the mirror list
>><http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/mirrors.php> and choose the
>>closest and fastest mirror for your location." has a link to a page that
>>does not mention yum at all. It is not clear to a non-expert what to do
>>in this situation.
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>We're still waiting for mirrors. Until there is an official list of
>mirrors, that page is kind of pointless... I assumed the list of mirrors
>would be available in a day or two after that page went up, so I linked
>it in. But so far no mirror list has been provided...
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>The page is there mostly because it provides info on how to get apt mirrors
>in. I would love for it to also provide info on yum mirrors, but no one
>has contributed any such info. I'll try to put something out there about
>our yum coming preconfigured, etc. and a pointer to the documentation page,
>but I'm not yet sure how this will all work out in the end.
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Not wanting to rush anyone, but wasn't there many responses to the call
to send mirror info to mirrors at fedoralegacy.org ? I know I send our
mirror info, which should work for both apt and yum. But this sounds
like it's going to be a while before the page goes up. If people are
busy, that's understandable, or was there some other problem?
Troy
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