Hmmm

I seem to have a catch22 here.

I've found the page at http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=118 that discusses installing yum-pluging-fastestmirror

I quote: "*How do I get this new system?*

This system is now live. If you update your system with the normal *yum update* command you will get the new *centos-yumconf* package."

The thing is, yum update fails with a string of [errno 4] (socket time outs) and [errno 12] (mirror url timeouts)

Can I get the file some other way? Thanks for your response

Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:28:11 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Up2Date and yum failing To: CentOS ML centos@centos.org Message-ID: 1165613291.26885.8.camel@myth.home.local Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 06:34 +1100, CM wrote:

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I have 2 new servers built from 4.3 isos. I want to update them but cannot do that because of update issues:

Up2date fails because of a several dependency issues. yum update fails because of a problem with the au mirrors. yum can find the mirrors but not the headers.

I would recommend that you install yum-plugin-fastestmirror and enable plugins in /etc/yum.conf by adding:

plugins=1

Then you can rollover to 10 mirrors using the default configuration.

The up2date issue happened because of a bug with handling obsoletes ... which is fixed in an update :P

also ... header issues normally mean you need to clean your yum cache ....

yum clean cache