yum / http proxy / downloads stop

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, seth vidal wrote:

> 
> > [main]
> > cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> > debuglevel=2
> > logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> > pkgpolicy=newest
> > distroverpkg=fedora-release
> > tolerant=1
> > exactarch=1
> > retries=20
> > 
> 
> and just for fun - try setting:
> keepalive=0 in your yum.conf under [main]
> 
> it seems like you're seeing network timeout issues which is most often
> caused by:
> 1. slow/overloaded mirrors
> 2. slow/overloaded network connection
> 3. transparent proxies closing keepalives early
> 4. transparent proxies sucking.

I just tried using keepalive=0 - and it happened again ... (this time
with http). I think I waited for more than a min before using ctrl-c

baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/

[root at n-gage root]# yum check-update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fast mirror (rawhide)
Server: Test Linux 2.6-test prerelease kernels for RHL9/rawhide
Server: Fedora Development(rawhide)
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
kernel-0-2.6.5-1.332.i686 100% |=========================| 173 kB    00:03     
kernel-smp-0-2.6.5-1.332. 100% |=========================| 173 kB    00:03     
kernel-source-0-2.6.5-1.3 100% |=========================| 454 kB    00:08     
kernel-doc-0-2.6.5-1.332. 100% |=========================|  25 kB    00:00     
kernel-smp-0-2.6.5-1.332. 100% |=========================| 172 kB    00:04     

<freeze - Ctrl-C>

kernel-0-2.6.5-1.332.i586 100% |=========================| 172 kB    00:03     
Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo        
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kernel                              i686   2.6.5-1.332              2.6testkernels
 

Satish