In fc3, using synaptic with the freshrpms group of repositories, which was working, today refresh got error messages for several of the repositories. For example:
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linu...glist.updates: Size mismatch

I have been unable to find a working mirror. What is going wrong? Do I need to switch to a different group of repositories?

Check out the freshrpms mirror list.

Thanks. I tried several of the mirrors at that site. Some seem to have working repositories, but have a different organization than the ayo repositories.

All the ayo mirrors seem to be having problems. Some don't respond. Some return problems like the following:

ftp://ftp.us3.freshrpms.net/pub/fres...glist.updates: Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. '
ftp://ftp.tr.freshrpms.net/pub/mirro...glist.updates: Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/mirrors/freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/base/pkglist.updates.bz2: No such file or directory ' [IP: 193.140.100.100 21]

I''ll try backing up my system and using one of the non-ayo repositories.

Any other suggestions?

You can try using YUM, I think there are instructions on how to do this on the Freshrpms site. I don't know where the problem is coz the main ayo repository seems to work fine on my pc. My configuration for that in /etc/apt/sources.list is below,

rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core updates freshrpms
#rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates
#rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core updates freshrpms
#rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates

I verified that I have the same entries in /etc/apt/sources.lis that you do. When I do a synaptic refresh, the core works properly, but I get messages from the rest.:

h++p://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/pkglist.updates: Size mismatch
h++p://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/pkglist.freshrpms: Size mismatch

I noticed that "base" is in the url, but not in the etc file.

I'll try Yum next.