Peter Horst [phorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > FC-5. A general question about yum - after yum loads its plugins, and > reports that it is "Setting up repositories," it seems always to take > forever to go through its little motions. I'm probably just spoiled, > but I'm wondering if I've misconfigured it somehow. In my imagination > at least all yum has to do is a few table lookups, and it seems to take > way too long (not hours, of course, but just ... a long time). Am I > alone in this? > > Thanks much. > It will try to access a server for about half a minute before giving up with no response and try another. But you should see a notice as it tries another machine. T.
