From: oldman <talbotscott(a)cox.net>
Subject: Re: yum access to fc6 mirror sites
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
<fedora-test-list(a)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 That site is very out of date, and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mirror for rawhide (berkeley, ca, usa) and it is almost a week out of
date.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
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