On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:44, Tom Mitchell wrote: <snip> > It turns out that up2date understands the protocol that yum uses. It > can use yum repositories. The config line format is a little > different. > > So far I have found that the up2date GUI hides a number of errors that > it cannot recover from yet. They share a lot of python source code so > eventually there will be no difference of value between the two in > terms of reliability. You know, I knew that, but your message caused me to look at my sources file and add mirrors to the list so if one does work, it switches to a secondary. Thanks eg: yum updates-release http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i38 http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates Disclaimer - I haven't had an opportunity to test this out since my system is fully updates. > BOTH need a better list of mirrors as comments in the distribution. > Perhaps a 'get_mirror_list' option or some other mirror discovery > strategy. Fedora is a community project but up2date/yum do not > leverage the bandwidth of the community yet. > > > -- > T o m M i t c h e l l > mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net -- Clifford Snow
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