>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:
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# 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