[Yum] traceback encountered

[Connie Sieh]

Seth,

These same ftp servers have no problem on site.  It seems to only be a
issue when the net may not be as clean/reliable such as the case with a
cable modem or wireless.

-connie

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, seth vidal wrote:

> 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
>
>