Downloading "powerpc-rtems4.10 gcc" for a few hours on Fedora 12

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 04/29/2010 05:21 PM, Darren Burridge wrote:
>
> I recently had trouble with rtems&  Yum over the weekend and Monday. It was
> an infinite ETA problem in Yum extender. In Yum it just locked.

That's OAR's networking troubles interacting with Fedora's broken
yum-plugin-fastestmirror.

yum-plugin-fastestmirror simply is broken. It doesn't work.

Deinstall it ...

> Joel's fix was:
>
> "The earlier message showed that rtems.eu was giving trouble.
> In /etc/yum.repos.d/rtems-4.10.repo, just use rtems.org not
> the mirrorlist.
>
> baseurl=http://www.rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/linux/4.10/fedora/$releasever/$basearch
> #mirrorlist=http://www.rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/linux/4.10/fedora/$releasever/mirrorlist
> "
>
> The fix worked for me.
Please don't do that. You are unnecessarily adding to overloading rtems.org.


Ralf