How to configure up2date to use a mirror

kkempter · 03-02-2004, 10:21 PM

I've installed Fedora core 1. It's a great distro - however the up2date site is slow as molasses. Can I configure up2date to use a mirror?

Skyline · 03-03-2004, 01:43 AM

Yes - you can find a list of mirrors here:

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

And to change the mirrors - simply su to Root user in an xterm then do

editor /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

(were editor is your text editor - ie gedit or kedit etc etc...)

then comment out your existing repos. and put you're two new ones in like this:

yum fedora-core-1 <http://....../1/i386/os/>

yum updates-released <http://...../updates/1/i386/>

homestead1000 · 03-05-2004, 01:58 PM

I've found this:

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rtg2...tem.admin.html

which says the same thing. However, up2date want's to register with RHN. How can I tell it not to register?

Thanks,

Ed

homestead1000 · 03-05-2004, 03:49 PM

found yum.

http://www.linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/index.ptml

way better solution and works likea champ!

Thanks anyway.

Ed

Ed-MtnBiker · 03-05-2004, 04:04 PM

>However, up2date want's to register with RHN. How can I tell it not to register?

Its a bug in the Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool, it exists in the FC1 CDs, that's version 2.1.2. once you update that to a later version (I'm running 2.1.4 now), it won't come up with that message.

You can blast through those notices and still get to up2date and run it successfully.

MarcHanlon · 03-29-2004, 09:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Skyline
Yes - you can find a list of mirrors here:

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

And to change the mirrors - simply su to Root user in an xterm then do

editor /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

(were editor is your text editor - ie gedit or kedit etc etc...)

Thanks very much for your help. I was just at the point of bashing my head off the wall when I realised that all the mirrors there mirror the updates aswell (I had originially disregarded them as just installation mirrors.

Thanks very much for your help.