Yum Update: Great in Theory not in Practice

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

It would appear that EVERY mirror in the US is broken in some way in
regard to YDL4. You gotta go north of the border. As for FreshRPMs, the UK
mirror does quite nicely. Here is a yum.conf file you can use:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest

[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Base
baseurl=http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/yellowdog/yum/4.0/base/
  
[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Updates
baseurl=http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/yellowdog/yum/4.0/update/

[extras]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Extras
baseurl=http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/yellowdog/yum/4.0/extras/

[freshrpms]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 FreshRPMs
baseurl=http://ayo.uk3.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/4.0/ppc/freshrpms/

[freshrpms_os]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 FreshRPMs OS
baseurl=http://ayo.uk3.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/4.0/ppc/os/

[freshrpms_updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 FreshRPMs Updates
baseurl=http://ayo.uk3.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/4.0/ppc/updates/

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:24:53 -0800, Jason Whitney wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have recently downloaded 4.0 and installed, everything works fine, 
> (well the modem is still a big ?)--- but there is one caveat.
> 
> Yum update fails each time I try, I get about 20% of the kernel-sources 
> and then it stops.  Just like that, the connection, poof.  I've tried 
> many times to no avail.  Hoping freshrpms would be a solution I tried 
> to add them to yum.conf but apparently got the syntax wrong because 
> after that yum stopped working altogether.
> 
> So to sum it all up, what's a better yum.conf not just for reliable 
> updates but also for "other" packages?
> 
> Any input would be great.
> 
> 
> - Jason
> 
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