Yum Update Mirrors

[hawat.thufir at gmail.com]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Christian Campbell wrote:

> From: Christian Campbell <ccampbell at BRUEGGERS.COM>
> Subject: Yum Update Mirrors
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
> 
> Running FC5 and trying to do a 'yum check-update'.  Was receiving timeouts,
> and increased the timeout to 300 seconds.  Now, when trying to download
> primary.xml.gz files...the ETA to completion is over 500 minutes.  I'm
> assuming the mirror sites are saturated?  I'm running on a T-1 connection,
> so I'm guessing the bandwidth problem isn't on my end.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can effectively use yum?  A
> different list of mirror sites?  Any help appreciated.
>
> Christian
[...]


Sometimes there's a conflict between the repositories.  what's the output 
for "ls -al /etc/yum.repos.d" on your system?




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