[Leaplist] yum problems/questions ....

[Kyle Gonzales]

Is your ISP on the official mirror list, or included in the Fedora
mirrors?  If it is not then it is unlikely that the plugin will look
for it and use it.  If your ISP has a mirror and it is fast and up to
date, I would recommend ditching the plugin, and hard set your yum
config to point to the ISP's mirror.

As for the timeouts... well, this plugin ensures that the faster
mirror get more traffic, which might very well cause socket timeouts
if they get overwhelmed with more connections than they can handle.

On Dec 19, 2007 10:46 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> .... I am using yum to maintain/upgrade this box, an Athlon64X2 running
> FC8. I installed the FC8 as an upgrade from FC7, which was in turn
> upgraded from FC6, both upgrades using DVDs burned from my ISP, which is
> 1 of the official RH mirrors. I am using the fastestmirror plugin w/
> yum, & am having a few small issues with it. For openers, it never seems
> to find my ISP as the fastest mirror, which is unexpected, since they
> are 1 hop away. Am I correct in expecting them to be the fastest mirror
> :-) ? Also, it (fastestmirror) seems to choose mirrors which are prone
> to socket-time-outs. Is anyone else having such problems w/ the
> fastestmirror plugin to yum ? Yum itself is fully updated (manually, as
> of this A.M.), & I am having a bit of dependency problems updating other
> packages due to the lingering presence of some FC6/FC7 packages, which
> is what motivates the question .... The machine itself is working pretty
> much AOK, I was just doing a bit of house-cleaning :-/ ....
>
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>
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