Robert Spangler wrote: > On Friday 17 July 2009 08:14, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> The mirrorlist entry in my Fedora-11 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-update.repo >> reads: >> >> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates- released >>- f$releasever&arch=$basearch >> >> As far as I can see, this means that yum is looking for >> the file metalink at mirrors.fedoraproject.org ? >> >> If I try "sudo yum update" I get: > > Why would you want to link to Fedora's Repo's? > So you can have an unstalbe Centos box? My server is running under CentOS-5.3 . My laptop is running under Fedora-11. Actually, I do use the EPEL repository on the server, and this uses the same fedoraproject site, so the same problem arises there. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin