New Firefox vs. Up2date

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Tim Holmes wrote:

> > > Does anyone know why this is?  Is the new firefox worth hand
> > > installation?
> > 
> > This is the issue with 'mirror-list' - i.e all mirrors don't have the
> > same files at any given instant.
> > 
> > And when up2date or yum is configured with a 'mirrorlist' - at each
> > invocation - it potentially checks a different mirror - hence
> > the info can be inconsistant.
> > 
> > Your alternatives are:
> > 
> > - wait a few hours so that most mirrors get this update
> > - try running up2date a few times - and hope one of these attempts
> gets
> >   to a more recent mirror
> > - Modify your mirrorlist to a better one (so that you don't go to the
> >   opposite end of the globe) - for eg: I use
> >   http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-
> > fc$releasever.us.east
> > - Do not use mirrorlist - and just use a favourite mirror closeby.
> This
> >   way up2date is ALWAYS consistant across multiple invocations.
> > 
> > BTW: the mirrorlist setting for up2date can be changed by editing
> > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources as in:
> > yum-mirror updates-released-fc3
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-
> > mirrors/updates-released-fc3.us.east
> > 
> > You can check http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/ for a
> > complete mirror-list for up2date
> 
> 
> [Tim Holmes wrote] 
> To follow on with this question, I have begun to use yum quite a bit due
> to some problems with up2date.  Is there a similar list and procedure
> for yum?

Yes - all the same issues hold good for yum. The default mirror list -
for each repository is already set in your yum config files.

For eg: - for updates - you'll have in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo:

[updates-released]
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever

You can change the above mirrorlist to:
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever.us.east
[or comment out mirrorlist - and use a single mirror for updates]

The complete list is at the above url - i.e
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors

The up2date icon on the kde taskbar uses 'up2date' - hence it depends
upon up2date config [i.e /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources] - so unless you
use the same SINGLE url for both up2date an yum [i.e no mirrorlist] -
You'll still have the same issue with the up2date icon potentially
turning 'red' - but yum saying there are no updates yet.

Satish