On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 17:06, Satish Balay wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Clifford Snow wrote: > > > I've upgraded from FC2 to FC3 on a dell m600 laptop. The upgrade went > > very smooth and painless. > > > > When I attempt to update using "yum update" yum fails with timeouts from > > many of the mirror sites. Is anyone else experiencing similar > > problems? The only .repo files enabled in my yum.repos.d directory are > > fedora-updates.repo and fedora.repo. > > > > Is the problem just too many hits with everyone trying to upgrade? > > Yeah - some of the mirrors in the list could be at the other end of > the globe - there is no way yum can choose the best mirror for the > user. > > So, we have 2 alternatives: > > - let yum choose a mirror - and if you think its slow do > 'Ctrl-C'. Yum will skip it - and try the next one. After the > downloads are done - another invocation of yum will install the > packages. > > - If there is a reliable/fast mirror closeby - then use 'baseurl' > instead of 'mirrorlist' in /etc/yum.repo.d/*repo files. Thanks for the suggestion. After attempting to run update a number of times today, it finally ran successfully. Must have been a combination of slow links and bandwidth. I noticed that yum didn't download packages it had previously picked up but didn't get to the install phase which cut the download process substantially. -- Clifford Snow
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