Am Do, den 16.09.2004 schrieb Patrick McSwiggen um 4:35: > I ran into the problem of it stalling more than once in the last month > and the problem is that one of the mirrors is/was offline. I don't > remember which one, but it was whichever was closest to me. Is there > one at Purdue? I'm new to Fedora/RH and at least with FC2 up2date is > setup out-of-the box to (randomly?) select a mirror from a rather short > list. If it happens to pick the mirror that's out it does not come back > and say the server is unavailable--it just hangs and never comes back. > It took me a long time to figure out that by quitting and restarting > up2date I could get it to pick again and hopefully try another server. > Since the redirection to the mirror appears to be happening at > redhat.com (so it's all "under the hood", as it were), it wasn't easy > to even figure out where the selection of the mirror was coming from. > Patrick D. McSwiggen pat.mcswiggen@xxxxxx I must say that I use up2date regularly and without any big problems. I don't use yum nor apt for updating my systems. It is best if you change your up2date setup to point to self chosen mirror servers. With the random choice you have a good chance to get a mirror which is no good source for your location. Some month ago I wrote a little paper to explain backgrounds and the way to change the sources file for up2date. Though it was for FC1 as target system you can still follow it for FC2: http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror Maybe it is helpful for you. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 14:09:17 up 17 days, 11:25, load average: 0.07, 0.15, 0.23
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