On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:13, Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Mike Klinke wrote: > > Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 08:53, Adam Lanier wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 09:39, Tom Mitchell wrote: > > > > Currently missing in both up2date and yum packages is > > > > packaged information on known mirror sites. Perhaps if > > > > 'famous' mirrors were included as comments folks might use > > > > them more. Or perhaps someone could post a reminder and a > > > > pointer to the famous mirror list once a month. > > > > > > Good point. Is there a list of mirrors somewhere? > > > > See this page: > > > > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html > > Some of these do not seem to be 'yum' ready. Perhaps > I have had too much rum fruitcake. > > Running up2date.... it seems the headers are not handy. > > An HTTP error occurred: > URL: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/headers/header.info > Status Code: 404 > Error Message: Not Found > I scouted around a little before I used the URL. The first two update mirror sites I looked at both had the "headers" directory so I gave the it a shot with them listed in the sources configuration file and they worked fine. I suppose just pick the one with the headers directory that suits you best. Give it a --dry-run if you feel too light-headed from the cake. Merry Christmas! Regards, Mike Klinke
