On Tue, 10 May 2005, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 14:46, Dag Wieers wrote:
It's nice they help out the Apache project this way, but at what expense ? So I'm wondering what to do next to avoid things like this.
I for one have switched to www.mirrorservice.org's mirror, which seems to be working OK at this point.
My complaint isn't as much with the repository as it's with yum itself for blowing chunks and completely failing.
Indeed. This is inherent to yum. I already complained about this in Yum's bugzilla and can only hope this will be fixed in a future release.
FWIW, when I update with synaptic I get a warning about the one repo being down but I get an update from the others just fine and can go ahead and upgrade from the loaded repos and wait until the ailing repo has things fixed. I wonder if yum can be configured to do similar; I for one track kde-redhat, the various centos.org mirrored repos as well as apt.sw.be; there have been times that either the kde-redhat main repo or apt.sw.be have been down for several hours, during which a yum-driven autoupdate dies, but an apt one can cope.
More than likely yum can be taught to do such, I just haven't yet done it.
Let me know if you find it. The only way to work-around is by disabling it and enable it whenever you require it. Which is the complete wrong approach being advertized as the right way to do it.
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