[RndTbl] Tip in the newsletter (fedora updates)
Sean A. Walberg
sean at ertw.com
Sun Feb 8 08:17:53 CST 2004
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
> Of course, if our mirror gets bogged down from overuse, you may want to
> point to a different mirror. Fortunately, there are a few others right in
> Canada now...
I just tried it out last night, and it worked great. Reading a bit in the
manual, though, you can put a list of mirror sites in, and they will be
tried sequentially:
ie
baseurl=http://site1/path
http://site2/path
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO-10.html#ss10.1
So, it might be best to leave the original mirror site in as a backup, or
pick another server.
Another curiousity... The CDs I had on hand were for Fedora Core Test 3,
so I installed it anyway. Edited yum.conf to point to the MUUG site, but
the core 1 base and updates. "yum update", and I had myself a Core 1 box
at the end of it! Not sure if I'm brave enough to try the same starting
at RH 9. :)
Sean
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