On Tuesday December 18 2007 11:45:52 am Timothy Murphy wrote: > I agree that the yum system is very good. > > But if as you say the problem is a temporary one caused by > updating (and it is my experience that the problem usually, > but not always, cures itself in time) > surely it should not be beyond the wit of man > to have some method of disabling repositories while they are > updating? > Michael S's comments were better informed than mine. However, what you suggest is probably feasible, but, it means someone figuring out the code and writing it, testing it, bug-zapping it, re-testing, and then getting a hundred or more mirror admins from all over the world to install it on their servers, many of which aren't even running Fedora, much less Redhat -- so, maybe not beyond the wit, but, perhaps beyond the resources... > Also my main gripe is that these yum errors are becoming much > more common, in my experience. > I don't know - I haven't gotten that impression at all, but, I can understand it being frustrating when it does happen, especially if you need some update NOW - but, in those situations, you always have the recourse of manually downloading a needed package. > In this case I decided to solve the problem by updating this > laptop to Fedora-8, which probably due to good luck > seems to have taken far less time than resolving the metadata > problem probably would have done. > I'm currently updating 315 Fedora-8 packages, which seems to > be going fine. Well, that's an interesting solution! You must have a lean machine if you only updated 315 packages - both my yum upgrades recently, involved over 1300 packages. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
