Yum problem!!!

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:08 PM -0300 10/10/05, George N. White III wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Strong wrote:
>
>> # yum install wesnoth wesnoth-tools wesnoth-server
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B
>> 00:00
>> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
>> 00:00
>> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
>> 00:00
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 104 kB
>> 00:26
>>
>>http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.x
>>ml.gz: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
>> Trying other mirror.
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  72 kB
>> 00:19
>>
>>http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora-core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xm
>>l.gz: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
>>
>> How to fix this?!!
>
>I often see this too.  If you can locate a reliable mirror that is close
>in network terms put that in the configuration file.

Have you tried increasing yum's timeout, per Thomas Springer?

At 11:12 PM +0200 10/4/05, Thomas Springer wrote:
 ...
>Am Dienstag, den 04.10.2005, 22:26 +0700 schrieb Strong:
>> I say,
>> $ yum install Newsgroup
>> and get the following:
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B
>> 00:00
>> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
>> 00:00
>> http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/fedora/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:16:00 GMT
>
>When using FTP try an increased `timeout' value.
>
>$ cat /etc/yum.conf
>[main]
>.
>.
>.
>timeout=16
>.
>.
>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Strong.
>>
>
>
>Thomas
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