[ale] tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.3.i386

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Well, this morning it was still holding steady at 18MB with 17 seconds 
left.  I downloaded it to one of our webservers (offsite), and then 
tried to download it from there.  It downloaded to the webserver in 
seconds, but when I tried to download it from there to here, same 
thing.  Got to 18MB and stopped.  I verified [again] that there was 
sufficient drive space, and scratched my head a bit.  Then, I tarred / 
gzipped it, which dropped it by roughly 1MB, and tried again.  This time 
it worked.   Downloaded it to my workstation, rpm -Uvh 'd it, and am now 
in business.  Anyone got any ideas about what could have been happening 
(and probably still is)?

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Chris Ricker wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
>
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>>I'm trying to update my Fedora Core3 machine using yum update, but it 
>>keeps hanging on tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.3.i386, specifically, it dies at 
>>around 18MB.  I've tried it from a couple of sources (including the 
>>stock yum sources, dag, and even downloading it with a browser from 
>>rpmfind), but have the same problem.  Anyone got any ideas?  I was able 
>>to download the OpenOffice update without a problem (100+MB), and I've 
>>still got several GB left on the drive.
>>    
>>
>
>This may or may not be your problem, but make sure you configure yum to use 
>relatively local mirrors. The full Fedora mirror list round-robins through 
>hundreds of sites of somewhat varied connectivity and reliability
>
>Changing to something like
>
>mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever.us.
>east
>
>in /etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/* will probably help in general. The
>above is what I use for machines in the Eastern US for which I've not set up
>a private archive, and it works pretty well. tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.3
>downloads for me using those mirrors just fine....
>
>later,
>chris
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