Update mirror http://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/fedora/core/updates/6/$ARCH/ fails

[Joachim Backes]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> Joachim Backes wrote:
>> This is what I get:
> 
>> yum update
>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> livna                     100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>> core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
>> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>> ---> Downloading header for tcsh to pack into transaction set.
>> http://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/fedora/core/updates/6/i386/tcsh-6.14-12.i386.rpm: 
>> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:42:49 GMT
>> Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)
>> Content-Length: 343
>> Connection: close
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> 
>> Trying other mirror.
>> Error: failure: tcsh-6.14-12.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No
>> more mirrors to try.
> 
> I saw something similar today.
> 
> I "fixed" it by changing the line
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc$releasever&arch=$basearch
> to
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc$releasever&country=eu&arch=$basearch
> in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo .
> 
> mirrors.fedoraproject.org will send you a list of mirrors for your
> country, based on your IP address. This is a problem if there is only
> one mirror for your country which isn't updated very often.
> 
> You can over-ride this by specifying a particular country in the URL. If
> the country code exists, mirrors.fedoraproject.org recognises it, and
> there are mirrors it thinks are valid, it will send you a list of
> mirrors.
> 
> If the server *doesn't* recognise the country code, then it reverts to
> telling you all the mirrors that it knows about. This is effectively
> what happened anyway for FC5.
> 
> This solution has the advantage that you have more mirrors from which
> yum can attempt downloads, which makes things more reliable. It also
> means that you automatically pick up on any new mirrors (or any mirrors
> that stop mirroring), and you aren't just dependent on Fedora Project
> servers (which can get swamped).
> 
> It has the disadvantage that you will connect to servers that are
> further away from you, which may increase download time.
> 
> Using the country code "eu" means that if the Fedora Project ever do
> publish a Europe-wide list of mirrors, you're likely to pick that up.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.

Hi James, thank you for the advice.

Regards

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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK],
Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing,
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