Updates SOLVED!

[Karl Larsen]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On 14/01/2008, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>> I know have 2 mirrors to check and both error out when they
>> appear to stop getting much past 2.5 mb of the total 7.7 mb required.
>> Odd because I manually d/l the darn thing and it IS 7.7 Mb.
>>
>> Seems I need to figure out what is causing this problem.
>>     
>
> It is strong evidence that a partial and possibly corrupted download
> still sits in /var/cache/yum/freshrpms/packages/ prior to your test.
> Yum attempts at continueing the download by fetching only the
> remainder instead of starting from scratch. It's a problem it doesn't
> escape from automatically. You need to do the necessary cleanup
> yourself (or point it to a working mirror if the mirror is the
> culprit).
>
>   
THANK YOU! I and a lot of people on this list were not aware of that 
/var/ storage. I am on F7 and it's the same thing here.


Karl


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