On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 18:31, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:49:08PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 09:05, Wayne Steenburg wrote: > > Well, I've been using the yum.conf I've posted earlier in the thread, > > and I'm still getting 'retrygrab() failed for:' messages on all my > > mirrors. Someone have a yum.conf that's working for them that I could > > try? > > A couple of notes: > > 1) Providing the end of the error (where it says specifically what > went wrong) is more illuminating than saying "getting 'retrygrab() > failed for' messages". Now, you posted the entire error in the > original message, so I'm not chastising you... just offering > general advice to the community :) As you mentioned, posted earlier in the thread. > > 2) Adding a baseurl is not (and should not be perceived to be) > mysterious. The baseurl is simply the location where "headers/" > lives. So, when I see this: <SNIP> I didn't say adding a baseurl WAS mysterious. > > My point is this: If you want to use a given mirror but they've > changed their filesystem layout, or someone gave you a bad baseurl, > you need only find the place where the headers/ dir lives. You can > usually do this in about 60 seconds with your favorite browser. > > I almost NEVER bother looking for a yum.conf snippet or documented > baseurl. I find it much faster to simply browse the repo looking > for the headers dir. > > I hope this is useful. Actually, I had asked for known good mirrors so...:-) I think you had good intentions, though. -- Cheers, Trey --- No lake so still but that it has its wave; No circle so perfect but that it has a blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't, you must take them as they are. -Han fei Tzu 21:26:46 up 4 days, 35 min, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.50, 0.92 Linux salamander 2.6.5 #1 SMP Mon Apr 5 01:03:13 PDT 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
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