Change Fedora Releases source

Phil Dobbin bukowskiscat at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 03:42:26 UTC 2012


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Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 08/01/2012 07:27 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> I have both Beefy on a desktop machine & a laptop. On the desktop 
>> variety, `yum update` works fine but on the laptop it's always
>> throwing errors (timing out, 401s, etc).
>> 
>> The laptop was upgraded from 12 -> 15 -> 16 -> 17 using preupgrade
>> as & when the new releases became available & the desktop was a
>> clean install from a Live CD.
>> 
>> What I'd like to do is check that the laptop is using the same
>> sources for Fedora Releases as the desktop & if, as I suspect, it's
>> not, change it so as not to encounter these errors.
>> 
>> I've tried Googling on the subject but I'm just seeing results for 
>> `/etc/yum.repos` which are not the source files with the relevant 
>> information I'll need so if anyone can point me to the relevant
>> config files, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> IMO, it is better to copy/paste the errors and show them to people.
> This will better enable people comment what is going on.

O.K., will do. I've got a pretty busy lab here at the moment so next
time I boot the laptop in question, I will do so but they are basically
ERRNO 12, timed out & 401 as yum switches between mirrors trying to get
the required files.

Cheers,

  Phil...

- -- 
currently (ab)using
CentOS 6.2, Debian Squeeze, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Precise

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