[PLUG] FC5 update question

[Jim Karlock]

At 09:50 PM 7/19/06, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:20 -0700, alan wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Jim Karlock wrote:
> >
> > > I installed FC5 last night and then clicked the update link. It is still
> > > downloading after around 12 hours (DSL line).
> > >
> > > What gives?
> >
> > You probably hit a bad mirror.  Kill the process and restart yum. (Use "ps
> > -auxw | grep yum" to find the process to kill.  It spawns a child process
> > with a weird name.)
>
>By default, yum points to a random mirror among Fedora's worldwide
>repositories. When I've checked, I've been connected to mirrors in NZ,
>Germany, and Brazil. While they're working on a "fastestmirror" RPM for
>FC6, the best approach for now is to revise the files in
>the /etc/yum.repos.d directories to specific nearby mirrors.
>
>I recommend that you modify the baseurl directive to point to nearby
>mirrors such as at kernel.org (hosted at OSU) and fedora.cat.pdx.edu.
>Comment out the mirrorlist directives. Multiple baseurl directives in
>each stanza are allowed.
Thanks. It finally finished and seemed to complete the process OK.

Thanks for the hint. I'll put in.

Thanks
JK



>Thanks,
>Mike
>
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