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[Charles Howse]

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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:12 pm, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Wayne Johnson wrote:
> > Clamav aside, what are good sites to include in my yum.conf file?  The
> > ones I've seen are all outside the US.  Anything local?  What are the
> > must have sites?
>
> Most of the 'unofficial alternate repository' sites are outside of the
> US in order to avoid certain annoying laws and regulations that limit
> things like MP3 support.
>
> You should definately replace the default core repositories with your
> choice of mirror from:
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
>
> Not only are most of the mirrors much faster, but people regularly have
> update troubles due to the congestion of the main sites.

I'm new at yum/apt, but there is something I have noticed that might bear 
mentioning here.
When adding repositories to your list, be aware that you may need a gpg key 
from one or more of them.
I found this out the hard way - apt couldn't install the packages I downloaded 
because they were signed with an unknown key.
Therefore, the more sites in the list, the more keys you have to search around 
for and rpm --import key.
If there's an automatic way to get the keys and import them, I'd be interested 
to know about it.

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Charles Howse
Jackson, TN

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