At 12:27 PM -0500 10/25/06, Les Mikesell wrote: >On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 22:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: ... >> Yum doesnt connect to the repository everytime. Only if the metadata >> expires which is a configurable setting. If you want to run from cache >> you can also use yum -C <operation>. You might want to try out Yum 3.0 >> in FC6. > >Sorry - I have trouble keeping up with programs whose options change >wildly from version to version. Fortunately, yum is not one of them. >I'd need a cheat sheet to know which >machine does/doesn't work that way. Here's a fairly up to date FC5: ># yum -C update >Loading "downloadonly" plugin >Loading "installonlyn" plugin >Setting up Update Process >Setting up repositories >core >[1/6] >Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core >Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core This is from a strange flaw in yum, which I haven't tried to track down, that it always hits the servers even when the cache is up-to-date and will be used. Since you are bothered by it, you may file a bug. In the meantime, several workarounds are available, including just changing the repo files to use the baseurl instead of the mirrorlist. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
