yum access to fc6 mirror sites

oldman talbotscott at cox.net
Sun Sep 24 15:44:08 UTC 2006


glenn wrote:
> Is there a solution to the yum access of mirror sites for FC6. Currently
> only the Ibiblio site is accessed.  That site is very out of date, and
> if it has anything you are trying to fetch, it is trottle at abt 17 KB/s
> (only slightly faster than dialup).
> 
> I keep seeing the buildsys reports that show new pkgs updates have been
> generated, but when Ibiblio does not update, those updates are not
> available to testor like myself.
> 
> Is this a problem with some update to yum, OR is the mirror support
> system mucked up.  I used to find yum would try to work with numerous
> alternative mirror sites.
> 
> Glenn
> 
	Glenn:

	Edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo file.  Uncomment the
'baseurl=' line. save that file and exit the editor. run command 'yum
clean metadata'.  You should now get the fedora.redhat repo to download
from.

Scott




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