FC3 - yum.conf and yum.repos.d files
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Sat Nov 13 01:06:37 UTC 2004
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Clifford Snow wrote:
> I've upgraded from FC2 to FC3 on a dell m600 laptop. The upgrade went
> very smooth and painless.
>
> When I attempt to update using "yum update" yum fails with timeouts from
> many of the mirror sites. Is anyone else experiencing similar
> problems? The only .repo files enabled in my yum.repos.d directory are
> fedora-updates.repo and fedora.repo.
>
> Is the problem just too many hits with everyone trying to upgrade?
Yeah - some of the mirrors in the list could be at the other end of
the globe - there is no way yum can choose the best mirror for the
user.
So, we have 2 alternatives:
- let yum choose a mirror - and if you think its slow do
'Ctrl-C'. Yum will skip it - and try the next one. After the
downloads are done - another invocation of yum will install the
packages.
- If there is a reliable/fast mirror closeby - then use 'baseurl'
instead of 'mirrorlist' in /etc/yum.repo.d/*repo files.
Satish
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