Updating Busted By Busy Servers?

WA9ALS - John wa9als at starband.net
Wed Dec 3 02:53:57 UTC 2003


I got the 3 Yarrow ISOs a couple of weeks ago.  When I installed FC1 a
couple of days ago and ran up2date, it said I had the latest of everything.
This doesn't seem likely - Any ideas how/why I got that message?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "billg" <billg at f-m.fm>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:59 PM
Subject: Updating Busted By Busy Servers?


> Much updating weirdness the last few hours:
>
> I reinstalled FC1 this afternoon. Once the install finished, I went
> straight to up2date.  Judging by the extremely slow transfer rates,  the
> servers were pegged.  When the transfer of a given file would apparently
> time out (as indicated by the up2date progress bar) several minutes would
> pass and then up2date would display a notice that the package's gpg was
> invalid.  However, that was not the case, because the message did not
> reappear when I subsequently managed to successfully download those
> packages.
>
> Eventually updated everything I need successfully, but 'twas a pain.
>
> billg
>
>
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