changing yum timeout and retries...

[Mike Chalmers]

On 8/29/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/08/2007, Mike Chalmers <mikechalmers70 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone know how to change the timeout and retries for yum. For
> > instance supposedly, changing  /etc/yum.conf should have worked. But
> > when I opened /yum.conf all I didn't get the option to change the
> > settings that needed to be changed in the yum.conf file because all I
> > got was this:
> >
> > [main]
> > cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> > keepcache=0
> > debuglevel=2
> > logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> > exactarch=1
> > obsoletes=1
> > gpgcheck=1
> > plugins=1
> > metadata_expire=1800
> >
> > # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
> > # in /etc/yum.repos.d
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I thought that there would be a timeout and retries option. Anyone
> > know how to change the yum timeout and retries settings?
>
> You can add them. Read "man yum.conf" for available options.
>
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I have read the manual and saw about retries and timeouts. But in my
yum.conf file there is nothing about timeouts and retries.