[ale] Fedora 11 mirrors not available?

[Pete Hardie]

Thanks to everyone for the help.  I tried again tonight, and everything worked.

I guess someone got ahead of themselves with the mirrors and update notices.....


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:08, Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm seeing specific package missing error in the repo mirrors. I suspect a
> sync failed. Luckily the missing packages as of 8 am are only bug fixes.
>
> To do an update when packages are missing/not available the following flags
> work nicely on a command-line yum update:
>
> (as root) yum --exclude="space delimited missing packages" --skip-broken
> update
>
> The exclude flag will skip the list and the skip-broken will skip any
> packages that are dependent on a non-available package. I don't think
> --skip-broken is a default part of PackageKit (the gui updater/notifier that
> likes to gives error out like halloween candy when the mirrors croak).
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Scott McBrien <smcbrien at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm on a plane, so can't test it myself, but I've seen this behavior
>>> when the mirror selected for you is unavailable.  Have you tried
>>> specifying a mirror in your yum repo file instead of using a mirrorlist?
>>>
>>> -Scott
>>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Well, I bit the bullet, and allowed the upgrade to F11 to take place,
>>> > and other than the new Nvidia drivers
>>> > issue, I was successful.
>>> >
>>> > However, now I'm getting updates that are failing because none of the
>>> > mirrors are found.  Likewise for
>>> > attempts to install new packages.
>>> >
>>> > Is anyone else seeing this?
>>> >
>>> >
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>> Hi Pete,
>> I had this same issue. I basically left it alone and in a day or so the
>> mirrors were up again. I still can't get my nVidia drivers to work, so good
>> luck with that! :)
>>
>> --
>> Marc F.
>>
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