[Yum] traceback encountered

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:41, Connie Sieh wrote:
> As long as we are talking about the first pass to get the headers.  I have
> seen it just stop alot.  I installed yum on my system at home.  It has a
> cable modem.  Yum would download a few headers and then stop.  I would
> restart it and it would get a few more.  I resorted to getting them via
> ncftp.
> 
> I was thinking that we might have to package up the headers as a rpm and
> install it when we install yum.  This will thus seed the cache and yum
> will then only have to get new headers.
> 

the good folks at asplinux are already doing this.

you could also consider going with an http server - you might find that
you see fewer stops - I think a lot of ftp servers don't deal that well
with the staccato action of yum and other such programs.

-sv
 
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