yum problem

Hello there,
I have only GPRS connection to Internet and I have problem:
when trying to make (for first trial) yum makecache (i set up
a repository:
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/Mir...pment/i386/os/ )
I got "ftp timed out" after loading 100-200kB of primary.xml.gz file.
And whole process stops.

Question is: how to make yum immune to this timeout -> force to retry
instead of stopping.

W.P.

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:04:59 +0200 W.P. <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
| Hello there,
| I have only GPRS connection to Internet and I have problem:
| when trying to make (for first trial) yum makecache (i set up
| a repository:
| http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/Mir...pment/i386/os/ )
| I got "ftp timed out" after loading 100-200kB of primary.xml.gz file.
| And whole process stops.
|
| Question is: how to make yum immune to this timeout -> force to retry
| instead of stopping.

I get this problem often. It's not well programmed. The only answer I
can think of is to recode the source. I believe it's written in Python.

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U¿ytkownik phil-news-(E-Mail Removed) napisa³:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:04:59 +0200 W.P. <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> | Hello there,
> | I have only GPRS connection to Internet and I have problem:
> | when trying to make (for first trial) yum makecache (i set up
> | a repository:
> | http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/Mir...pment/i386/os/ )
> | I got "ftp timed out" after loading 100-200kB of primary.xml.gz file.
> | And whole process stops.
> |
> | Question is: how to make yum immune to this timeout -> force to retry
> | instead of stopping.
>
> I get this problem often. It's not well programmed. The only answer I
> can think of is to recode the source. I believe it's written in Python.
>
Using Google I have found the answer: there is a parameter timeout in
yum.conf. Simply have changed it to 180 and download was OK.
I have now other problem, it seems that yum "eats" all available memory
(i have 256MB). Will try with 384MB.

W.P.