yum dead in water, only evidence of server is ping response

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 03 July 2004 22:49, Clint Harshaw wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Find attached my yum.conf for an FC1 system.  Is there something
>> wrong with it?  I've not managed to get any response out of the
>> server for [updates-released] in about 4, maybe 5 days now.
>
>[...]
>
>> [base]
>> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
>> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$r
>>eleasever/$basearch/os/
>
>Bingo! The problem is with the yum.conf trying to hit the redhat
> server which is overloaded. Try using the sample yum.conf available
> at this url:
>
>http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/samples/yum.conf
>
>You'll see a big improvement!

And this one works, except I forgot to put in the exclude=kernel* 
line :-)

>
>Hope this helps,
>Clint

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Cheers, Gene
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Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
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