Why no development mirrors?

Paul Dickson paul at permanentmail.com
Sun Apr 2 21:36:53 UTC 2006


On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 18:15:30 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On 4/1/06, Paul Dickson <paul at permanentmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> feel free to edit your yum config for the fedora-development repo and
> use one of the alternative localized rawhide mirrorlists in   
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/
> or just comment out the mirrorlist in the development repo config and
> use a static list of baseurls for mirrors that you trust.

Thanks.  I copied the contents of
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-devel into a
static list in my fedora-development repo, changing extras to core and
$ARCH to $basearch.

	-Paul




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