Update - yum -y not downloading data...

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 07:26 +1000, Mark Knights wrote:
> Here is the yum -y data as requested...
> 
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 136 kB    00:34
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from extras: [Errno 256] No more 
> mirrors to try.

Increasing the timeout as suggested by Thomas would be a good idea. You
might also want to try using a more local mirror of the Fedora Extras
repository (the default configuration only uses the
download.fedora.redhat.com site at the moment, which is often very
busy).

Try editing /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo and change it from this:

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

to this:

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever
baseurl=http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
	http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>