yum 2.1.4-1 broken?

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sun Oct 3 17:30:24 UTC 2004


I have observed that to. I think it was while dowloading the
primary.xml.gz file, with a previous version of yum. Also with the
default mirror.

søn, 03.10.2004 kl. 17.16 skrev Robert Couture:
> On Sat, 2004-02-10 at 13:41 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > I've looked through the downloadheader code and there are no calls to
> > sys.exit anywhere near it.
> 
> Here's an interesting update.  Following another's suggestion, I
> switched to kernel.org's mirror, and the problem goes away.
> 
> A noted behaviour of the default mirror I have observed is that it
> "stutters"  It will stop during downloads.  The stop can be as little as
> a second or as long as permanent (based on waiting over 10 minutes to
> resume and getting impatient. ;)  Occasionally, yum errors out.
> 
> I am wondering if that may be the source of the problem??  This
> "stuttering" is not observed when using kernel.org's mirror.
> 
> Just a thought ...
> 
> Rob.
> 




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