Re: yum/apt/up2date moving locations - one place to look?

There server(s) for the RPMS/updates was down.  This is kind of a bad
first step for Fedora.


On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:25, Gene C. wrote:

> On Monday 17 November 2003 09:53, Joe Szilagyi wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there will simply be a page on fedora.redhat.com with
> > the correct info, for the official and mirrored locations?
> >
> > Between the volume of messages and questions about this, and the
> > conflicting info, and reports of the Red Hat site being
> > up/down/broken/possessed I'm completely lost.
> 
> The situation is only semi-broken.  The URLs in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources 
> depend on "redirects".  The "real" URLs can be seen on this page: 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/updates.html
> 
> While this is correct, the URLs as defined by the current up2date and yum 
> packages are not correct.
> 
> I am hoping that Red Hat:
> 
> 1. Reinstalls the redirects on fedora.redhat.com (really www.redhat.com) -- so 
> that fresh installs will work properly.
> 
> 2. Issues updated packages for up2date and yum which use the actual URLs and 
> do not depend on the redirects.
> 
> You can manually update /etc/yum.conf and /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for the 
> correct URLs.
> 
> There are lots of comments on this situation on the list but it is also a high 
> volume list information can be easily missed.

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