yum access to fc6 mirror sites

[frob at rtdti.com]

> From: oldman <talbotscott at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: yum access to fc6 mirror sites
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> 	<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>
> glenn wrote:
> > Is there a solution to the yum access of mirror sites for FC6. Currently
> > only the Ibiblio site is accessed.  That site is very out of date, and
> > if it has anything you are trying to fetch, it is trottle at abt 17 KB/s
> > (only slightly faster than dialup).
> >
> > I keep seeing the buildsys reports that show new pkgs updates have been
> > generated, but when Ibiblio does not update, those updates are not
> > available to testor like myself.
> >
> > Is this a problem with some update to yum, OR is the mirror support
> > system mucked up.  I used to find yum would try to work with numerous
> > alternative mirror sites.
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> 	Glenn:
>
> 	Edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo file.  Uncomment the
> 'baseurl=' line. save that file and exit the editor. run command 'yum
> clean metadata'.  You should now get the fedora.redhat repo to download
> from.
>
> Scott

Hi,

I've had same problem on two rawhide machines, one last successfully
updated sep 19, one sep 20.

I've had to BOTH uncomment 'baseurl=' and comment out 'mirrorlist=',
then `yum clean metadata; yum update` to get an update, and floods
updates came in.

Since it was on two machines, I don't think it was purely cockpit
error on my part, but you never know.

I'm bleating here (fedora-test-list) because I don't know where to
else to bleat, and it has been mentionted here recently...

<bleat>It seems strange (but I admit ignorance) that there is only one
mirror for rawhide (berkeley, ca, usa) and it is almost a week out of
date.</bleat>

Robert
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