Re: yum access to fc6 mirror sites

> From: oldman 
> Subject: Re: yum access to fc6 mirror sites
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>
> 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  That site is very out of date, and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

Hi,

I've had same problem on two rawhide machines, one last successfully
updated sep 19, one sep 20.

I've had to BOTH uncomment 'baseurl=' and comment out 'mirrorlist=',
then `yum clean metadata; yum update` to get an update, and floods
updates came in.

Since it was on two machines, I don't think it was purely cockpit
error on my part, but you never know.

I'm bleating here (fedora-test-list) because I don't know where to
else to bleat, and it has been mentionted here recently...

<bleat>It seems strange (but I admit ignorance) that there is only one
mirror for rawhide (berkeley, ca, usa) and it is almost a week out of
date.</bleat>

Robert
--
Robert Dowling -- f as in fedora, rob as in robert <AT> rtdti.com

yum access to fc6 mirror sites

[Oldman]

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[e-mail] wrote:
> > From: oldman 
> > Subject: Re: yum access to fc6 mirror sites
> > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> >
> > 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  That site is very out of date, and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
>
> Hi,
>
> I've had same problem on two rawhide machines, one last successfully
> updated sep 19, one sep 20.
>
> I've had to BOTH uncomment 'baseurl=' and comment out 'mirrorlist=',
> then `yum clean metadata; yum update` to get an update, and floods
> updates came in.
>
> Since it was on two machines, I don't think it was purely cockpit
> error on my part, but you never know.
>
> I'm bleating here (fedora-test-list) because I don't know where to
> else to bleat, and it has been mentionted here recently...
>
> <bleat>It seems strange (but I admit ignorance) that there is only one
> mirror for rawhide (berkeley, ca, usa) and it is almost a week out of
> date.</bleat>
> Robert
>
> Robert Dowling -- f as in fedora, rob as in robert <AT> rtdti.com

You could try building your own mirror list, using the official Fedora
list at http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html copy as many
mirrors you like to either the fedora-development.repo or another file
to have the mirror list point to.  Might take some messing with, but not
too much.

Scott
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[Oldman]

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[e-mail] wrote:
> > From: oldman 
> > Subject: Re: yum access to fc6 mirror sites
> > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> >
> > 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
>
> Hi,
>
> I've had same problem on two rawhide machines, one last successfully
> updated sep 19, one sep 20.
>
> I've had to BOTH uncomment 'baseurl=' and comment out 'mirrorlist=',
> then `yum clean metadata; yum update` to get an update, and floods
> updates came in.
>
> Since it was on two machines, I don't think it was purely cockpit
> error on my part, but you never know.
>
> I'm bleating here (fedora-test-list) because I don't know where to
> else to bleat, and it has been mentionted here recently...
>
> <bleat>It seems strange (but I admit ignorance) that there is only one
> mirror for rawhide (berkeley, ca, usa) and it is almost a week out of
> date.</bleat>
> Robert
>
> Robert Dowling -- f as in fedora, rob as in robert <AT> rtdti.com

Well until they do, you can solve the problem by expanding your baseurl
to include other mirrors.

Just go to Fedoras mirror list at
http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html go to the section near
you geographically and copy them into your fedora-development.repo.  You
will need to add the suffix (everything after the /core/ in the url) and
do check I find that many of these mirrors are not operational.  Here is
a section of my .repo file for comparison:

[development]
name=Fedora Core - Development
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearc...
        ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/development/$basearch/os
ftp://mirror.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/os/
        http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/$basearch/os/
        ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/$basearch/os/
        http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/core/development/$basearch/os/
        ftp://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/core/development/$basearch/os/
        http://fedora.cat.pdx.edu/linux/core/development/$basearch/os/
        ftp://fedora.cat.pdx.edu/linux/core/development/$basearch/os/

mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Of course a Bugzilla wouldn't hurt either!

Scott
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[Mike McGrath]

On 9/25/06, oldman  wrote:
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> [e-mail] wrote:
> > > From: oldman 
> > > Subject: Re: yum access to fc6 mirror sites
> > > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> > >
> > > 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).

For those not on the devel list, I've been working on this and it
should be in better shape now.  There was a bug causing the checking
of our repos to fail before it even got to check the rawhide stuff.
Rawhide is sensitive to the bug because it has very few actual
mirrors.  If this happens again to you add 'showinvalid=1' it should
help but its not perfect.

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i386&s...

-Mike

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[cornel panceac]

thank you very much, mike.

On 9/28/06, Mike McGrath  wrote:
> On 9/25/06, oldman  wrote:
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> > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > > From: oldman 
> > > > Subject: Re: yum access to fc6 mirror sites
> > > > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> > > >
> > > > 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).
>
> For those not on the devel list, I've been working on this and it
> should be in better shape now.  There was a bug causing the checking
> of our repos to fail before it even got to check the rawhide stuff.
> Rawhide is sensitive to the bug because it has very few actual
> mirrors.  If this happens again to you add 'showinvalid=1' it should
> help but its not perfect.
>
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i386&s...
>                   -Mike
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[Ola Thoresen]

Thanks a bunch.

But it still shows a really ugly error if there is no available mirror
and you have specified a "country="

E.G. this is fine:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-5&arch=i386&co...
And this:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i386&c...
But not this:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i386&c...

And on a side note, the mirrors returned from "core-5" do also mirror
development, even if they are not listed as official mirrors:

ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedora/core/development/i386/os/

Rgds.

Ola Thoresen

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[glenn]

[e-mail] wrote:
> I've had same problem on two rawhide machines, one last successfully
> updated sep 19, one sep 20.
>
> I've had to BOTH uncomment 'baseurl=' and comment out 'mirrorlist=',
> then `yum clean metadata; yum update` to get an update, and floods
> updates came in.
>
> Since it was on two machines, I don't think it was purely cockpit
> error on my part, but you never know.
>
> I'm bleating here (fedora-test-list) because I don't know where to
> else to bleat, and it has been mentionted here recently...
>
> <bleat>It seems strange (but I admit ignorance) that there is only one
> mirror for rawhide (berkeley, ca, usa) and it is almost a week out of
> date.</bleat>
> Robert
>
> Robert Dowling -- f as in fedora, rob as in robert <AT> rtdti.com

Yes, the above steps solved it for me. I have 2 hosts that I had FC6 on 
and both had the same issues, so it is process problem and not something 
we did wrong.

I also use a static IP address on my host, and the script 
(/bin/dhclient) has been messing up my /etc/resolv.conf.  I made a copy 
of my /etc/resolv.conf, which works in dynamic mode, and when I switched 
to static, and I copied the good version to /etc/resolv.conf and now I 
can use a static address successfully.

Good luck and carry on your testing.