need yum.conf with http server not ftp

Boby · 04-29-2004, 05:48 AM

hello

i am running on fedora core 1 and i f*** up my originall yum.conf. now i need a new one, but can anybody give me one that uses a http server not a ftp server? thats because our lan doesn't support external ftps. and it would be good to use an server from europe.

i'm a

and don't know much about yum. i searched and tried for a week but nothing worked.the best thing was that it downloaded many many header files but nothing what i told, then i breaked up.

thanX very much

jon-do · 04-29-2004, 10:25 AM

Here is a link to "how to yum.conf", read the first message and it has a link to yum.conf
how to yum

Boby · 04-30-2004, 12:17 AM

hey...that yum.conf looks great...i just started a [/B]yum update glib[/B] and it downloads some headers. will it auto update my glib or have i something to do after this?

thanX

Boby · 04-30-2004, 05:22 AM

i have a very very bad connection...with this new yum.config it downloaded more than 5 hours just headers and then i got this:

Code:

....
getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/fribidi-devel-0-0.10.4-4.i386.hdr
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core...0.4-4.i386.hdr
  Executing failover method
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fed...0.4-4.i386.hdr
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core...0.4-4.i386.hdr
[Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):

the command was yum update glib ... i think nothig was updated...am i right??

THX75 · 04-30-2004, 10:33 AM

I noticed your signature says you're from Romania. Try replacing the servers in your yum.conf with mirror servers closer to you (if you haven't already).

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

Boby · 05-04-2004, 07:12 AM

yes, but there are only ftp mirrors in romania. in europe i can fin only 2 http mirrors.
is there no chance to make yum not to download all these headers from all programs? if i say yum update kde it should only search for kde.

and sorry for my english!!

thanX a lot