[Yum] Error Upgrading RH8 to RH9 -- retrygrab() fail

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "sv" == seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> writes:

   >> But how do I do that?  How do I get yum to fetch this correctly?

   sv> oh, hmm, you're using mirror.dulug.duke.edu.

   sv> Try using fedora legacy's mirror of rhl9 and see if it works.

   sv> download.fedoralegacy.org.

This seemed to work.  It's still downloading headers but I can this header
has already been downloaded.

Can you explain why it works from this site but not the other?

Also, I'm a bit confused as to how I should be pointing at repositories.  If
my interest (for now) is to maintain an RH9 system with legacy RPMs but all
updates, will the following work:

[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch/

[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasev
er

Or will the 'base' stanza also handle any updates?

Also, what is the effect of adding a new stanza such as:

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Older RH 
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1


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