FYI: Workaround for today's FC5 baseurl/mirrorlist problems

[Joshua Andrews]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>   
>> Joshua Andrews wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Thank you Jef.
>>>
>>> I must say that this is a really big piece of shit! Maybe a simple yum 
>>> update could have solved this problem for thousands of people!!!!!! Maybe?
>>>       
>> It wont. Since you wont be able to get that update without the mirror 
>> list working.
>>     
>
> Yeah, I thought the same thing as Joshua 'till I  realized yum wouldn't
> work to get at it! The devil is in the details! <impishly smiles> Ric
>
>   
The point is; was this a symptom of some catastrophic system failure or 
an executive decision?  If the latter, as I suspect, then one person 
writing a few lines could have saved many thousands of people a whole 
lot of needless bullshit!