up2date: Using Fedora FTP Mirror Sites?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 17.02.2004 schrieb Ken Neiser um 05:26:
> I recently tried to configure up2date to use an official Fedora Mirror 
> Site, "ftp://ftp.telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/". It didn't seem to 
> work. I was using, "rhn-applet-2.1.4" at the time. Prior to this I had 
> no problem using the default Fedora site for updates.
> 
> On a recent fedora-list item I saw that "rhn-applet-2.1.7", might be 
> able to support this type of mirror site. I installed the rpm for 
> rhn-applet-2.1.7 and configured the "sources" file for the above 
> mentioned mirror site.
> 
> sources:
> yum fedora-core-1 ftp://telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os
> yum updates-released ftp://telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386
> #yum updates-testing 
> ftp://telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386
> 
> After launching the up2date GUI, a "Progress Dialog:" box eventually 
> shows up with a message of, "Fetching 
> ftp://telus.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info". 
> Nothing happens after this.
> 
> I can manually download what I need from the mirror site in question 
> with no problems.
> 
> Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?
> 
> Ken Neiser

The mirror seems to be overloaded. I can not get login. Try a different.

Alexander


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