On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 21:00 -0400, Sean wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:30:53 -0400
"Ryan Skadberg" <skadz1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I put a comment in front of the mirror list (which has all bad mirrors
> in it) and just added:
>
>
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/developme...
>
> And it seems to work fine.
>
Sure, but the question remains.. why isn't it delivered to the user in a working
order?
That is, why did you need to make that change yourself? Why is it that yum needs all
these little user interventions so often? Why are the error messages it produces so
hideous? Is yum honestly solid enough to make it the foundation of the installer?
If nobody else is thinking the same thing i'll just shut up and deal with it;
perhaps
i'm the only one fed up with yum.
The problem you're poorly diagnosing isn't really in yum. The crux of
the problem is out of sync mirrors being in the mirror list. That's a
problem we're working on now by taking some work that another project
has done to check the status of a mirror to make sure that the metadata
it has matches the metadata that the mirror master has.
To give you a useful analogy to the situation you're experiencing: This
is like complaining that firefox is a bad browser b/c all of the
websites you're visiting are down. OR complaining that you are riding a
bad bike b/c all the roads are closed.
-sv