Solution for slow up2date speeds (Answered)

[Takasho]

For those people who are having serious speed issues with up2date all you need to do is change your up2date sources file and add it a local mirror.

In your the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file you may have the following line:

yum updates-released http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1

Which if you open in a browser actually goes to:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/

So all you have to do is find a local mirror from here:

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

And then modify the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file to add your local repository. To add a UK mirror listed as : http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/

Navigate the mirror in your browser and use the full URL which points to the i386 directory otherwise it isn't going to work. So the fhe etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources should now have the following entry:

yum updates-uk-release http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/

That should all be on one line.

If you comment out your old updates-released mirror, you should no longer have any speed issues with up2date.

Hope this helps,

Takasho.

[pigpen]

Thank you very much for the hint! up2date works perfectly now. I almost got used to the debian 'atp-get' updating style ;-)

[Takasho]

Glad to help.

[Avatraxiom]

Just to let everybody know, you can also see an answer to this question in the FAQ:

http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#SlowUpdateServers

-M

[joakimcs]

I have been using apt-get with the graphical front-end synaptic for a while. I find it stable, up-to-date and instructive, as you can get detailed descriptions on all available and installed packages.

Are there any drawbacks when using apt-get? Happy to hear of your experiences!

[feenixx]

what duke has to say about apt
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/questions.ptml

I prefer it over yum or up2date myself too.


btw. some up2date mirrors are badly out of sync. like kernel.org's
mirrors..

[Avatraxiom]

I've used apt, and I like it. I think that the reason that I use yum now is that it's what ships with Fedora, and I'm trying to support it so that it will improve. I know that skvidal is working on making it a lot better. In particular, he's working on making the metadata (the headers that you have to download) work a lot better. It probably won't be in Fedora Core 2, but it might make it into FC3.

-M

[tiberiu]

Takasho... you must be The One
Now, using a mirror from my country, I can fully update my system just in 5-10 minutes..

Thanks a lot!