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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