Problems using up2date

[William Hooper]

Ian P. Thomas said:

> The reason I'm attempting to use this option is because up2date has
> failed to complete a complete run of updating my system.  It times out when
> attempting to download the packages I need to update.

You want to edit the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file.

>  Without the
> '--serverURL' option, up2date seemed to go through a list of
> mirrors on its own, using this URL as the value of serverURL,
> 
> https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC

This is a URL for RHN, not the yum backend.

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William Hooper