[WBEL-users] Yum Update Error

[A Streetcar Named]

http://www.whitebox.org currently says:
May 20, 2004

Due to excessive amounts of traffic from those unable/unwilling to
reprogram their up2date client to point to a mirror I have been forced
to BLOCK http access to the /pub directory. Otherwise the mirrors have
no chance to sync up.

http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/faq.html also says 
# How is WhiteBox Linux updated?

Obviously RHN isn't available as an option, so yum has been brought in
from Fedora along with a version of up2date that can work with yum. So
pick Up2Date Network from the menu and it basically "just works".

There are some issues though. There is still an initial panel which
refers to rhn, but if you just click past that it doesn't actually try
connecting to rhn. Another is that the current version of up2date
doesn't support multiple repositories via yum and the default choice
is the primary whiteboxlinux.org server. Since this machine has
limited bandwidth you really should switch to a mirror. Edit
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and comment out the two entries listing
www.whiteboxlinux.org and uncomment the one at ncsu. Once you run
up2date the first time it will retrieve an update to itself, after
which you can either keep the ncsu entry or pick a different mirror.

Putting both together, you should probably comment out references to
whiteboxlinux.org from yum, leaving only references to its mirrors.


----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Maze <maillists@crescentdigital.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:52:14 -0400
Subject: [WBEL-users] Yum Update Error
To: whitebox-users@beau.org







Hello,

    Just tried a YUM update and received the following 
error:

 

        
Gathering header information file(s) from 
server(s)

        Server: White Box Enterprise 
Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base

        retrygrab() failed 
for:

            
http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386/headers/header.info

            
Executing failover 
method

        
failover: out of servers to 
try

        
Error getting file
http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386/headers/header.info

        
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not 
Found

 

    I have a http://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386 
entry to my yum.conf file; it's currently commented out.  If I uncomment it 
from the [base] and [updates-released] entries, will it first try the whitebox 
site for updates and then switch over to the mirror if theres a 
problem?