Re: yum

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 08:50 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> ...
> > If the mirrorlist was not being used to distribute the load, the baseurl
> > server would be experiencing the same problem (only much worse).
> > Although you can go back to the baseurl, eliminating the mirrors will
> > cause other (probably more severe) problems at some point.
> > 
> 
> I trick is to use the mirrorlist from FC6, this will also work
> on FC5 (because of $releasever).
> 
> At least it works for the extras repository, replace:
> 
> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever
> 
> with:
> 
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> 
I tried the above replacement. That is not a valid web address. What is
wrong?

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