Seth, These same ftp servers have no problem on site. It seems to only be a issue when the net may not be as clean/reliable such as the case with a cable modem or wireless. -connie On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:41, Connie Sieh wrote: > > As long as we are talking about the first pass to get the headers. I have > > seen it just stop alot. I installed yum on my system at home. It has a > > cable modem. Yum would download a few headers and then stop. I would > > restart it and it would get a few more. I resorted to getting them via > > ncftp. > > > > I was thinking that we might have to package up the headers as a rpm and > > install it when we install yum. This will thus seed the cache and yum > > will then only have to get new headers. > > > > the good folks at asplinux are already doing this. > > you could also consider going with an http server - you might find that > you see fewer stops - I think a lot of ftp servers don't deal that well > with the staccato action of yum and other such programs. > > -sv > >
