Thanks Jim!
I will give yum a try.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Perrin" <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Timeout While Retrieving Package
>> I am trying to get the latest updates and I keep getting the error
>> message:
>>
>> "Error while retrieving package kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL. The Message was:
>> Timed Out"
>>
>
> How are you trying to update? via yum, or up2date?
>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1. Whay is this happening?
>
> Depends on what you're using. Mostly, whichever update server you're
> connecting to isn't responding for some reason. Or your system isn't
> getting the response, either because of a firewall or busted proxy.
>> 2. Can I change the "Timeout" parameter to allow for more time?
>
> Depends on what you're using.
>
>
>> Note: I have checked only the Kernal option when running Up2Date thinking
>> this may help.
>
> Oh. You're using up2date. Up2date is not a tool I'd recommend using.
> It 'works', but it doesn't handle yum repos as well as it could. You
> should try using yum from the terminal with 'yum update'. There is a
> timeout option in yum that you can change. By default I believe it is
> set at 30s. You can read about this in the documentation for yum.
>
>
>
>
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