FYI: Workaround for today's FC5 baseurl/mirrorlist problems

[Joshua Andrews]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> My understanding is that there is an issue today with access to the
> mirrorlists used in the fc5 repository definitions.  As a workaround
> the cgi mechanism used in fc6 to create mirrorlists has been made
> available for fc5 repositories.
>
> If you are having difficult using the default fc5 mirrorlists and are
> getting error messages like:
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
>
> You can use these mirrorlist definitions as a workaround:
>
> [core]
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-$releasever&arch=$basearch 
>
>
> [extras]
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-$releasever&arch=$basearch 
>
>
> [updates]
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-$releasever&arch=$basearch 
>
>
> [updates-testing]
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-testing-$releasever&arch=$basearch 
>
>
> Take a look at the frontpage of http://fedorasolved.org for more
> detailed instructions on how to make the ncessary changes to the repo
> definition files to use these alternative mirrorlist definitions.
>
> -jef"end of transmission"spaleta
>
Thank you Jef.

I must say that this is a really big piece of shit! Maybe a simple yum 
update could have solved this problem for thousands of people!!!!!! Maybe?