Please help

Simon Andrews simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Fri Jul 10 10:17:46 UTC 2009


Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 00:09 -0700, Digvijay Patankar wrote:
>> If in mirrorlist, there is https then change it to http (all
>> occurrences) .
>> Now run yum again.
>> I think it will work for you, because it worked for me!
> 
> Probably a co-incidence.  Such as between one attempt and the next,
> you've used a different mirror.
> 
> As a general rule, it's not always wise to degrade from using a HTTPS
> (secure) to a HTTP (non-secure) address.

Unless of course your internet connection operates through a proxy, in 
which case HTTPS mirrorlist retrieval is currently broken (a bug in the 
undelying python library).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484491

Simon.




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