J.Moore wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:38 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
Not going to flame, but I am going to disagree. The vast vast vast
majority of people (including myself) have no issues running the Yum
update service.
# chkconfig yum on
# service yum start
I'm going to have to disagree with your choice of adjectives. My
experience is that about one of every 3 attempts at 'yum update'
requires manual intervention due to a broken mirror that results in an
indefinite "stall" in the update sequence.
If you regularly have problems with mirrors, it's probably worth your
while configuring a local mirrorlist that work quickly and reliably for
you. See http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/ for an example.
In fact it's probably worth doing this even if you don't have trouble
with mirrors, as at least you can specify ones closer network-wise to
you, which will be faster.
Paul.
