yum

[Darren Foster]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:09 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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?

Aaron,

Follow the instructions here...

http://fedorasolved.org/Members/bobjensen/fc5-yum-mirror-list-update 

these worked for me simply copy and paste them across that way you will
avoid any spelling mistakes (not that im faulting your spelling, just
that this site worked for me).

Regards,

Darren