Info: if your yum fails ... server maintenance

[beartooth]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:42:01 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:

> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
[....]
>>selection page is actually affected and out of order.
>>
>>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc4
>[...]. Please come back in a few hours
[...]
> Thanks Alexander,
> 
> I fiddled around with the repo lists for quite some time before reading 
> your message. I evenually went to a direct URL instead of the mirror 
> approach.

Would somebody please explain to the technically challenged how to do that? 

My upgrades from FC2 and Fc3 went fine; I did FC1, hit exactly that error,
and have been retrying ever since, for almost 24 hours.

Fwiw, I still have an /etc/yum.conf from FC1. 

Up2date also fails.

Is the server really still out??

Or is something else wrong on my end?

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