I ran yum update today, and I have two questions: The run ended with the following output: ... making available: ddd Resolving dependencies Updating: xorg-x11-xauth, i386 localhdrpath= /var/cache/yum/updates-released/headers/xorg-x11-xauth-0-6.7.0-5.i386.hdr for xorg-x11-xauth i386 Not an install only pkg, adding to ts What does that mean? Second, I have failovermethod=priority, but it appears that yum starts with the last url for the depository, rather than the first. My /etc/yum.conf starts like this: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=3 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=fedora-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=2 failovermethod=priority [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=ftp://sunsite.uio.no/linux/Fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/fedora-core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=ftp://sunsite.uio.no/linux/Fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ (I had debuglevel=8 when I ran yum, changed it to 3 afterwards.) The output from the run started like this: # yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/base Getting header.info from server failover: baseURL = http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (my underscoring) failover: path = headers/header.info headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/base/header.info Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/updates-released Getting header.info from server failover: baseURL = http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/ failover: path = headers/header.info headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/updates-released/header.info How can I make yum use the mirror at sunsite.uio.no if available, and only resort to download.fedora.redhat.com if there is no other choice? Regards, Enrique
