slow up2date

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 07.09.2004 schrieb Buddy Hummler um 20:06:

Please don't reply to list mails while you want to start a new topic.
You did "hijack" the thread "Adding users with first.last name".

> Everything seems to be working fine. I ran up2date successfully for the 
> first time last week and got tons of updates within a matter of minutes. 
> However, today up2date told me there are only 10 updates available (much 
> fewer than when i ran it the first time) and it seems to be taking much 
> longer. up2date is hung up on "Fetching rpm headers" ... say I want to 
> cancel this in the middle and just not get the updates. Is this a wise 
> choice to cancel up2date in the middle of running? Would there be any side 
> effects to just hitting canceling out and not getting the updates?
> 
> -Buddy

By default up2date on FC2 is setup to use a random mirror server. Seems
first time you got one with nice speed and responsiveness from your
site.

Configure /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to point to one or more mirror
servers near you.

Alexander


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