up2date and yum not working?

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On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 21:19, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 21:43, Jim Cornette wrote:
> >Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 19:09, fred vachon wrote:
> >>>You might try using one of the mirrors in yum.conf rather than the
> >>>main Fedora download server.  It might be having some problems.  I
> >>>had similiar problem today trying to use yum which had been fine
> >>> in the past.  I switched to one of the mirrors and was fine.  You
> >>> can find the mirrors at
> >>> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> >>
> >> I commented the fedora.redhat.com url line out, then reconstructed
> >> it with about 4 of the other east coast addresses but wasn't able
> >> to make yum talk to any of them.  I finally grabbed the updates
> >> with konqi and installed them with rpm.
> >>
> >> Can someone post the full line that would be added to make it work
> >> with the duke (or ibiblio) http server?  Maybe I fubared it
> >> somehow.
> >
> >http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/
> >2/i386/os/
> 
> Unforch, this is fedora core 1, and ibiblio has no headers dirs in 
> either tree, or at least none that mozilla can see.
> 
> >As an example. What you are looking for is a directory which
> > contains a header directory that is wothin your archetecture.
> >
> >Browse with your favorite browser. Then copy the link for chosen
> > mirror and directory which contains the header.
> >
> >As root, open up your /etc/yum.conf file with your chosen editor.
> > Paste the link into the file and edit to be in line with the
> > examples within the yum.conf file.
> >
> >For updates, you might use this link for a reference.
> >
> >http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/
> >updates/2/i386/
> >
> >I use up2date with yum repos. The settings are pretty similar and
> > each file contains examples for repos.
> >
> >I hope this helps,
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >--
> >You are confused; but this is your normal state.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
> There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty.  Soap, ballot, 
> jury, and ammo.
>  Please use in that order, starting now.  -Ed Howdershelt, Author
> Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
> Maurice E. Heskett,
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> reserved.
> 

I had trouble as well getting to mirrors yesterday so I changed mirrors
like this, and the update did fine.. 
:update portion of my yum file

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/