yum will not work!

[Randy Kelsoe]

Matthew Benjamin wrote:

> Can someone tell me what I need to do to get yum working.The yum.conf 
> file looks like the following.
>  
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=fedora-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
>  
> [base]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever
>  
> [updates-released]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-$releasever
>  
> #[updates-testing]
> #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
> #baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever

And the answer (which has not changed from the many times this has been 
answered in the archives)   :)    is:

Look at:   

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/

in short, use a mirror.