On Tuesday 15 September 2009 02:37 PM, Kam Leo wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:45 AM, suvayu ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Jwalant,
Could you please stick to the posting guidelines for the list? Top
posting makes reading and replying in context rather cumbersome. Now
about the issue at hand ...
2009/9/15 Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji<jwalant.soneji@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Suvayu,
2009/9/15 Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 14 September 2009 06:42 PM, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote:
Meanwhile, what I did was to copy the base URL and paste it in to the
browser address bar. Tried to open each URL, removing last tag if not
found.
This way, it put me to the nearest URL (IITK, India). And then selected
F10,
i386/686, and thus got the new URL, which I pasted in the repo files. It
seems to be working.
Or you could have just looked here, :-p
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/
Thanks!
Please confirm that replacing the base URL with the nearest server address
no negative consequences.
If you comment out the mirrorlist line and replace the baseurl line
with a mirror of your choice there shouldn't be any problems.
However you do limit receiving updates for your system by becoming
dependent on one particular mirror. If that mirror goes down for some
reason, you would need to edit the line again to be able to update
your system. In your case however this doesn't make much of a
difference because afaik the IITK mirror is the only mirror anywhere
near India.
The above information is not correct. Yum allows use of multiple
repos. Here's a snippet from "man yum.conf":
baseurl
Must be a URL to the directory where the yum repository’s ‘repo-
data’ directory lives. Can be an http://, ftp:// or file:// URL.
You can specify multiple URLs in one baseurl statement. The best
way to do this is like this:
[repositoryid]
name=Some name for this repository
baseurl=url://server1/path/to/repository/
url://server2/path/to/repository/
url://server3/path/to/repository/
If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository you
will find yum will ignore the earlier ones and probably act
bizarrely. Don’t do this, you’ve been warned.
You can use HTTP basic auth by prepending "user:password@" to
the server name in the baseurl line. For example:
"baseurl=http://user:passwd@xxxxxxxxxxx/";.
EXAMPLE:
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
[updates]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
Thank you for correcting that, Kam. Does this mean yum uses my preferred
mirror and falls back to the other mirror when it is not working?
--
Suvayu
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