Adding packages via yum

Michael Stenner mstenner at ece.arizona.edu
Sun May 2 16:55:31 UTC 2004


On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 09:30:04PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 18:31, Michael Stenner wrote:
> > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:49:08PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 09:05, Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> > > Well, I've been using the yum.conf I've posted earlier in the thread,
> > > and I'm still getting 'retrygrab() failed for:' messages on all my
> > > mirrors.  Someone have a yum.conf that's working for them that I could
> > > try?
> > 
> > A couple of notes:
> > 
> I didn't say adding a baseurl WAS mysterious.

Agreed.  My original email (and this one, too) should be interpreted
as inspired by you, but directed to the community.

> Actually, I had asked for known good mirrors so...:-)

Well, some of the mirrors in that config file ARE good mirrors
(meaning the server has all the files you want).  They simply have the
wrong baseurls.  A 404 USUALLY just means that someone made a typo or
that the mirror layout got rearranged.

> I think you had good intentions, though.

I did, indeed :)

					-Michael
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