[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.5 is released for i386, x86_64, and ia64

[Chris Date]

>If you are currently using another version CentOS-4 version, using this
>command will upgrade you to CentOS-4.5:
>
>yum update

That doesn't work with a fresh install of 4.2 (from the Linux Magazine cover
DVD, April '06).  'yum update' gives the following output:

    --------------------------
# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  25 kB    00:06
update    : ################################################## 104/104
Added 104 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.20 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  40 kB    00:17
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4]
Socket
Error: timed out
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors
to try.
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I encountered this problem a long time ago but haven't had time to look at it
more closely since.  Now would be a good time to solve it, so I'd welcome any
ideas.

  Cheers,
  Chris