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

Clifford Snow jcs at snowandsnow.us
Sat Nov 13 05:15:26 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 17:06, Satish Balay wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the suggestion.  After attempting to run update a number of
times today, it finally ran successfully.  Must have been a combination
of slow links and bandwidth.  

I noticed that yum didn't download packages it had previously picked up
but didn't get to the install phase which cut the download process
substantially.
-- 
Clifford Snow
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