yum with FC3-test2

Andrew Farris fedora at andrewfarris.com
Wed Oct 6 08:24:57 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 19:42 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 15:49, Todd Chambery wrote:

 <snip>

> > Also, should I use a mirror in place of the URL above?

 <snip>

> 
> Mirrors are better choices. The main server usually errors out because 
> of a heavy load from a lot of users. A good mirror should work much more 
> reliably.

For the benefit of anyone having issues with Yum, here is the yum.conf I
am using at present.  There are many more mirrors than I am using, and
these are all US (mostly western, some eastern).  If you are in another
country then I advise you to do a little groundwork here.. and get the
correct mirror configured using the closest possible servers to you.

If you are using the default yum.conf included when you installed FC3t2
do not complain about it failing.. it is KNOWN that the main redhat
server (the only one configured by default) is incapable of supporting
the entire FC community.  You will experience timeouts until you use a
mirror.

File: /etc/yum.conf
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[development]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
failover=priority
baseurl=ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/$basearch/
ftp://mirror.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
ftp://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/linux/core/development/$basearch/
ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/development/$basearch/
ftp://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/development/$basearch/
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/





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