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frob@rtdti.com wrote:
From: oldman talbotscott@cox.net Subject: Re: yum access to fc6 mirror sites To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases fedora-test-list@redhat.com
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 That site is very out of date, and if it has anything you are trying to fetch, it is trottle at abt 17 KB/s (only slightly faster than dialup).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strange (but I admit ignorance) that there is only one mirror for rawhide (berkeley, ca, usa) and it is almost a week out of date.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