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[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:18 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 05:07 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Somebody seems to have killed the mirrorlists:
> > 
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc5
> > 
> > returns:
> > ...
> > Fedora Core 6
> > We are working hard to bring fedora.redhat.com back up to its fully
> > operational state. 
> > 
> > Until then, please visit our BitTorrent tracker or list of mirrors if
> > you are trying to download Fedora Core 6.
> > ...
> > 
> > The URL above is the default for yum on FC5 ...
> > 
> 
> We know. There's not much we can do about it.
> 
> Tell affected users to replace
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc5
> with either:
> http://fedoraproject.org/mirrors/updates-released-fc5
> or
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc
> $releasever&arch=$basearch
> 
> that's the best I've got for the moment.

Well, you didn't mention the cause - Am I correct in presuming this to
be a temporary failure or is it a permanent URL change?

Ralf