Michael Stenner wrote: >On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:15:25PM -0400, Joseph Tate wrote: > > >>A nice error message would be better. >> >> > >Agreed. We add 'em as we find 'em :) > > > >>This is when no http connection can be made to the server, or a >>network connection isn't available. I was using the 1.96 RPM. >> >> > >I think I know what you mean, but I want to be sure: > >"no http connection can be made to the server" means it's a bad url or >the server is down or something. > >"a network connection isn't available" means the box you're running on >isn't connected to the net? (this one I'm not sure of) From the >perspective of yum, these two would be the same, so that makes sense. > Yeah. #service network stop #yum list updates insert dump here. #echo "0.0.0.0 mirror.dulug.duke.edu" >> /etc/hosts #yum list updates insert dump here. Seems to be the same dump either way. I'm doing this from memory though, so I could be mistaken. It should be easy to test though.
