numerous errors trying to update with yum

[seth vidal]

> (this strikes me as an unnecessarily vague error.  either the header.info
> is bad/damaged, or the server is down.  surely yum can tell the 
> difference, no?)

no, actually it can't. Not when we know that at sometimes the overloaded
download.fedora.redhat.com is handing back garbage.


> other times, the operation just flat out hangs.  is all of this possibly
> due to just an overloaded server?

yes.

-sv