On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:02, Hernan Fernandez wrote: > El jue, 08-01-2004 a las 00:33, Pedro Fernandes Macedo escribió: > > Mark Fuller wrote: > > > > >What is wrong with up2date? It is very unpredictable whether it will > > >complete. Most of the time it hangs. I was completely unable to get anywhere > > >with it at work (through a firewall). At home, it hangs half the time. > > >Tonight it hangs 9 out of 10 times. > > > > > >I used gentoo and had no problems with emerge. Is this something Redhat is > > >aware of? Or is it accepted as normal? > > > > > >Mark > > Yes i have the same problem with up2date, i edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources > and add a local mirror from http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html > and you can see that it flight :D > > saludos > -- > Hernan Fernandez While the editing of '/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources' and using a mirror is the correct way currently to avoid the high load on Red Hat servers - It is far from ideal. As a desktop OS looking to gain new users, we really need local mirror selection via drop-down menu (or whatever) as part of the update application. Could be time for an RFE. :) Regards Philip Wyett -- Email: philip@xxxxxxxxx Website: http://www.wyett.net Public key: http://www.wyett.net/gpg/public_key.txt --
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