On 11/25/05, Bryan J. Smith thebs413@earthlink.net wrote:
So what's the problem that prompts you to bring up another distros in comparison?
Very simple. No hangups in the update retrieval process. In the one case after 3-4 years experience, in the other case after 6 months experience. As I have attempted to make clear at ervery turn to put this thread back on track, this has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of or the package selection philosophy of any these distros. Nor is it to be interpreted as any sort of putdown for CentOS. Nor is it intended to be the basis for any Red Hat vs. CentOS wrangling. It is merely a description of a "mechanical" problem on the one hand and the absence of this type of "mechanical" problem on the other hand. The hope being, in the long run, that this type of information could be of benefit to CentOS in providing good delivery to all.
At least one respondent understood what I was trying to say from the getgo.
As Johnny noted in his most recent posts, this could be difficulty in reaching one or more of the servers in the normal rotation from my site Or it could be something in my yum or repos setup.
Also, Jim was kind enough to point out the yum plugin fastmirrors.
My thanks to all who understood what I was trying to accomplish. I will make the changes Johnny recommended, and I will investigate the yum plugin.
-- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan