Yum control functions [was] Re: [Yum] yum socket timeouts

[loninappleton]

  Could someone say where the control functions of yum are described
and how to use them?



On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Nicholas Steblay wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running yum 2.1.12-1 on Fedora Core 3.  I have a Dell with a
> standard ethernet NIC.  I am connected to the Internet through a Linksys
> WAP11 acting as an Access Point Client to a Linksys wireless router that
> is connected to the internet via Linksys cable modem and Comcast.  The
> WAP11 and my Dell NIC are connected to a Linksys ethernet switch.  I
> have used this configuration to avoid configuring a wireless card within
> Fedora.  I seem to get solid access to the Internet and other computers
> on my network.  I am not seeing network problems with other
> applications, though downloads do occasionally hang.
>
> When I use yum to get updates, large rpm downloads always stall with the
> error: Socket Error: timeout.
>
> I have retries set to 3 and timeout set to 15.  If I use 0 for retries
> yum hangs eternally.  I have also tried setting keepalive to 0.
>
> It seems to me that yum is not handling socket timeouts very well.  Any
> suggestions or comments are welcome.  Is this likely a problem with how
> the WAP11 is bridging the wireless network?
>
> - Nick
>
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