FC3 - yum.conf and yum.repos.d files

[Satish Balay]

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