Re: Error Whilst trying to yum update.

[Adrian Reber]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:53:28PM +0000, niji ogunbameru wrote:
>  Your mirrors are not working
>  For such an important software, why is it so difficult to get yum
>  update for Centos 5* without an official resolution from
>  fedoraproject.org for this common embarrassing issue littering the
>  internet.
>  yum update
>  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  Could not retrieve mirrorlist
>  http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386 
Works here if I try it:

$ curl "http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386"
# repo = epel-5 arch = i386 country = DE 
http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-epel/5/i386/
http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/epel/5/i386/
http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/fedora-epel/5/i386/
http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/fedora-epel/5/i386/
http://mirror.fraunhofer.de/download.fedora.redhat.com/epel/5/i386/
http://epel.uni-oldenburg.de/5/i386/
http://ftp.uni-koeln.de/mirrors/fedora/epel/5/i386/

What do you get if you try that command?

		Adrian