On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 20:46 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > Ian P. Thomas said: > > > The reason I'm attempting to use this option is because up2date has > > failed to complete a complete run of updating my system. It times > out when > > attempting to download the packages I need to update. > > You want to edit the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file. > If you look carefully at the sources file, you'll find that it only uses 2 lines 1 which points to the fedora download site and 1 which has a "up2date-mirrors" section followed by (in my case) fedora-core- rawhide, which opens a text file of about 5 mirrors that up2date will cycle through. Some of those only have 1 site, so you could change which miror list you use fairly easily too! As I understand it this means that if you are not getting a good download speed, you could try again and you may just get another (not-so-busy) mirror. At least that's the way it's been working for me. But if you want to ensure that you only download from a particular site, you'll have to edit the sources file, ensuring that the non #'d lines are remarked out. > > Without the > > '--serverURL' option, up2date seemed to go through a list of > > mirrors on its own, using this URL as the value of serverURL, > > > > https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC > > This is a URL for RHN, not the yum backend. > > -- > William Hooper > >
