Re: FC2 up2date libxslt does not down load

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/31/04

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    "Jean-David Beyer" <jdbeyer@exit109.com> wrote in message
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    > Clive Long,UK wrote:
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > Up2date keeps on prompting libxslt has an update from 1.1.5-1 to
    > > 1.1.12-2
    > >
    > > As a matter of course I just accept all FC2 maintenance. All other rpm
    > > packages have downloaded (eventually - some are slow) and installed
    > >
    > > However, libxslt never seems to commence download - even if I leave
    > > over-night
    > >
    > > Any ideas? Ways around this?
    > >
    > >
    > I only ran Fedora (Core 2) for a couple of weeks because I did not like
    > it. But during that time, I got LOTS of updates.
    >
    > Unlike Red Hat's version that uses Red Hat Network for updates, Fedora's
    > version seems to rummage around the internet for the updates, and each
    > time it runs, it is likely to go somewhere else to see if updates are
    > available. So if the little round Icon winks red, it found some site where
    > that library had a higher version than yours. But when it went to get it,
    > it looked somewhere else that did not have such an update (yet?). So I ran
    > up2date in CLI mode where I could see what was happening very quickly and
    > just ran and reran and reran and reran it until it stumbled on the site
    > that had the update.
    >
    > Just waiting will not do it.

    Check the /etc/yum.conf and edit your list of potential download sites there
    to select some good connectivity sites that stay up-to-date. Then use those,
    or consider setting up your own internal FTP mirror (which is what I do).

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