On Tue, 10 May 2005, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 May 2005 14:46, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > It's nice they help out the Apache project this way, but at what
> > expense ? So I'm wondering what to do next to avoid things like this.
>
> I for one have switched to www.mirrorservice.org's mirror, which seems to be
> working OK at this point.
>
> My complaint isn't as much with the repository as it's with yum itself for
> blowing chunks and completely failing.
Indeed. This is inherent to yum. I already complained about this in Yum's
bugzilla and can only hope this will be fixed in a future release.
> FWIW, when I update with synaptic I get a warning about the one repo being
> down but I get an update from the others just fine and can go ahead and
> upgrade from the loaded repos and wait until the ailing repo has things
> fixed. I wonder if yum can be configured to do similar; I for one track
> kde-redhat, the various centos.org mirrored repos as well as apt.sw.be; there
> have been times that either the kde-redhat main repo or apt.sw.be have been
> down for several hours, during which a yum-driven autoupdate dies, but an apt
> one can cope.
>
> More than likely yum can be taught to do such, I just haven't yet done it.
Let me know if you find it. The only way to work-around is by disabling it
and enable it whenever you require it. Which is the complete wrong
approach being advertized as the right way to do it.
-- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
