On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 19:17, Tony Nelson wrote: > >> But, your response suggests that my question was overly narrow. Apparantly > >> smart doesn't use the repo mirrors. Les, are you even using yum at all? > > > >Yes, but... I've installed from the k12ltp distribution which > >adds its own repository. It does use the fedora core/extra > >repositories with what I think is the standard mirrorlist. > >It has had some problems but seems to be working now. > > Hmm. Well, anyway, I expect that k12ltp uses fedora updates as well, which > might explain "some problems", but only your yum.conf knows for sure. Yes, it has: mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever enabled=1 and everything seems OK now. However, one of the reasons I install from k12ltsp instead a stock fedora is that updates available at the time the isos are built are rolled in so there might be a difference in what needs to be updated. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx