[K12OSN] 5.0 EL repos dead/outdated?

[Vi Thai]

Thanks, Tim.  Each of my .repo files have "enabled=1".  Just to see if
it would update from another site I brought my server home.  It's
currently downloading the updates.  I did nothing different with the
update process, just opened up the terminal and typed in "yum update"
and started downloading the headers and is installing without a hitch.
 The only difference is the site.  I was at school with it gave me an
error that there were no mirrors to try and at home it's downloading
the updates just fine.  Our school connects to a school and library
network that has a firewall.  If anyone knows which firewall port
should be turned off so that I can call and have them temporarily
allow the port to be opened, I won't have to drag the other three
k12ltsp servers home! :)

Thanks.

Vi

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Tim Born <k12osn at deltacfax.com> wrote:
> Vi -
>
> RPM repositories can be ftp or http (for the most part).  If you have a look
> at /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo you will see files that control the various
> repositories available to you.  If the file has 'enabled=1', it is
> considered.  The actual location of the repository is found in the 'baseurl=
> ...' line.  That is a direct pointer to a repository.  Larger repos often
> have mirrors, which are controlled by a mirror list.  This shows up in the
> *.repo on the 'mirrorlist= ...' line.
>
> good luck
> -tim
>
>
> Vi Thai wrote:
>
>> Hello.  I tried this suggestion but it still cannot update.  The error
>> I am getting is:
>> Error: failure: 5.2/libgcj-4.1.2-42.el5.i386.rpm from k12ltsp: [Errno
>> 256] No more mirrors to try.
>> Someone had suggested a firewall issue and that may be my problem.
>> Does anyone know which port yum uses to update?  Thanks,
>>
>> Vi
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mesd.k12.or.us>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Barry Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello List,
>>>>
>>>>  Still wrangling with my yum problems on my new install of 5 EL K12LTSP.
>>>> I
>>>> am thinking now it is possibly a firewall problem. I have done many
>>>> installs of K12LTSP from here at school with no problems behind our
>>>> firewall. Yesterday I did try and add in the Network Proxy setting of
>>>> our
>>>> school's firewall( which I have never had to do in the past) in
>>>> preferences. This did not help any. WHen I try and yum install ( from a
>>>> terminal) the rpm tries to download but I always get " Header not
>>>> complete" I've heard of these in serveral posts,but do not really know
>>>> how to troubleshoot it?  I can of course download rpms manually but I am
>>>> trying to install vlc, and there are dependencies as long as your arm to
>>>> get this to install!Should I be able to telnet on port whatever to say
>>>> mesd/k12ltsp download site to see if i get a response? Anyone have any
>>>> ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Tahnks,
>>>>
>>>> Barry Cisna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You may want to try changing the repos to point to ftp rather than http.
>>>
>>> Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/k12ltsp.repo
>>>
>>> and change:
>>>
>>>
>>> mirrorlist=http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-5.0EL-$basearch
>>>
>>> to:
>>>
>>>  baseurl=ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-$basearch
>>>
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>>
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