On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 21:19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 21:43, Jim Cornette wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 19:09, fred vachon wrote: > >>>You might try using one of the mirrors in yum.conf rather than the > >>>main Fedora download server. It might be having some problems. I > >>>had similiar problem today trying to use yum which had been fine > >>> in the past. I switched to one of the mirrors and was fine. You > >>> can find the mirrors at > >>> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html > >> > >> I commented the fedora.redhat.com url line out, then reconstructed > >> it with about 4 of the other east coast addresses but wasn't able > >> to make yum talk to any of them. I finally grabbed the updates > >> with konqi and installed them with rpm. > >> > >> Can someone post the full line that would be added to make it work > >> with the duke (or ibiblio) http server? Maybe I fubared it > >> somehow. > > > >http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/ > >2/i386/os/ > > Unforch, this is fedora core 1, and ibiblio has no headers dirs in > either tree, or at least none that mozilla can see. > > >As an example. What you are looking for is a directory which > > contains a header directory that is wothin your archetecture. > > > >Browse with your favorite browser. Then copy the link for chosen > > mirror and directory which contains the header. > > > >As root, open up your /etc/yum.conf file with your chosen editor. > > Paste the link into the file and edit to be in line with the > > examples within the yum.conf file. > > > >For updates, you might use this link for a reference. > > > >http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/ > >updates/2/i386/ > > > >I use up2date with yum repos. The settings are pretty similar and > > each file contains examples for repos. > > > >I hope this helps, > > > >Jim > > > >-- > >You are confused; but this is your normal state. > > -- > Cheers, Gene > There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, > jury, and ammo. > Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author > Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, > Maurice E. Heskett, > all rights > reserved. > I had trouble as well getting to mirrors yesterday so I changed mirrors like this, and the update did fine.. :update portion of my yum file [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/
