Why no development mirrors?
Paul Dickson
paul at permanentmail.com
Sat Apr 1 23:07:59 UTC 2006
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:43:38 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 21:16 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
> > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo gives:
> >
> > [development]
> > name=Fedora Core - Development
> > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
> > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide
> > enabled=1
> >
> > Yet a "curl http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide" only
> > provides:
> >
> > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$ARCH/
> >
> > Are there no other mirrors?
> >
>
> it uses an apache rewrite to redirect you to a different mirror each
> time.
Great. There is no longer any error recovery if a mirror doesn't have
have an rpm. I had to run yum eight times before it could sucessfully
download everything and begin installing/updating.
-Paul
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