FYI: Workaround for today's FC5 baseurl/mirrorlist problems

[Paul Howarth]

Joshua Andrews wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>  
>>> Joshua Andrews wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> Thank you Jef.
>>>>
>>>> I must say that this is a really big piece of shit! Maybe a simple 
>>>> yum update could have solved this problem for thousands of 
>>>> people!!!!!! Maybe?
>>>>       
>>> It wont. Since you wont be able to get that update without the mirror 
>>> list working.
>>>     
>>
>> Yeah, I thought the same thing as Joshua 'till I  realized yum wouldn't
>> work to get at it! The devil is in the details! <impishly smiles> Ric
>>
>>   
> The point is; was this a symptom of some catastrophic system failure or 
> an executive decision?  If the latter, as I suspect, then one person 
> writing a few lines could have saved many thousands of people a whole 
> lot of needless bullshit!

I believe it was a combination of a heavy load on the servers due to the 
FC6 release, plus what appears to be an DOS attack aimed at Red Hat.

The system used for FC6 is very similar to what has worked very well for 
CentOS. Hopefully it will be working as intended soon and nobody will 
have to bother with this "bullshit" at all.

Paul.