On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:59 PM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:30:02AM +1300, Tom Parker wrote: > > yum is broken (and has been broken in every XO-1.75 build) so I'm > > limited to what is shipped in the standard build. Apparently there is > > nothing that can be done to fix yum except be naughty and use the olpc > > build server :( I can't find the ticket where this was explained (is > > there an easier way to search the tickets than laboriously removing each > > irrelevant filter and then trying to decide which one is relevant?). I > > think rdate is included, I'll see if I can find a public server. > > Yes, yum is almost always broken, about 95% of attempts here. It is no > transient network issue for me. I've diagnosed this further and for me > the most likely cause is that my two ISPs have automatic unofficial > mirrors or caching proxies of Fedora and have a DNS that causes > connections from my hosts to go to their host instead of Fedora. DNS > queries sent elsewhere give different answers. > > If you are seeing it as well, I guess the symptom is more likely in > reasonably developed but remote countries, where it is worth the ISP > doing this optimisation. Occasionally I had better results by either > tunelling to the US, using an alternate DNS server (such as 8.8.8.8 > google-public-dns-a.google.com), or determining the IP address of a good > Fedora mirror and adding that to my /etc/hosts file. > > Once I've successfully downloaded an RPM, and it is important, I keep a > local copy. > > I search tickets using mail. Have a look at #11272 and #1168 and > #11130. > > I don't think rdate is included. Nor is ntpdate. > FWIW, similar to JC, but a little diferent methodology: I usually go here to get rpm's for the 1.75 when yum is misbehaving http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/builds Also: One of the first things I then do is download the current versions of the following little guys onto a USB then do a yum localinstall from there for 1.75 gadget testing: bind-libs bind-utils gparted ntp ntpdate putty traceroute usbutils yum-plugin-downloadonly yum-utils Cheers, KG > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Testing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing >
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