i'm putting together a short intro to yum that will be part of a revised RH admin course, so i might be able to contribute a newbie-level howto. (actually, i'll be doing two different writeups. the first will be newbie-level for the admin course, the second will be building a repository for a more advanced workshop course. i've come to the conclusion that almost all admin topics can be approached in these two ways. but i digress. onward.) what is the rationale for multiple server entries in /etc/yum.conf? as alternatives? i ask since i was trying to use the initial contents and just doing a "yum list" on my RH severn (9.0.93) box. this didn't work well as the command seemed to choke on this entry in yum.conf: [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ retrygrab() failed for: http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9.0.93/i386/headers/header.info Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9.0.93/i386/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found ok, the problem is that the actual directory name at dulug is not "9.0.93", but "severn", so it's not surprising that the access fails. but this brings up the obvious question -- why didn't yum keep going to an alternate server in that file, as one definitely existed: [osbeta] name=Red Hat Linux Beta 9.0.93 baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9.0.93/i386/yum/os IOW, what's the value of having multiple server entries if a failure at one will cause the entire command to abort? or am i doing something wrong? (almost assuredly, yes, i'm doing something wrong.) rday
