well, on Red Hat distros we have the standard reduced repos (DRPMs) which only contain the difference between two RPMs but am not sure if they do have accelartors. also thought of integrating Aria2c into yum(ex). 

On 2 September 2010 13:08, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
Mr. Mugo,

You seem to have worked with yum. I am an apt-get guy (Debian) and I use apt-fast on my home PC (http://bit.ly/aeTsAy) which integrates apt and axel (download accelerator) to boot download speeds when using apt. I was just wondering if there is such a script for yum as there is for apt-get.

When I get time to learn bash scripting, I'll write one if it doesn't exist... and CopyLeft it :)


Lemmi know what you know


On 30 August 2010 14:54, m mugo <mugo2of3@gmail.com> wrote:
The problem might not be in the .repo files

Try cleaning up your yum cache and then update your repositories before attempting any installations in this fashion;

yum clean all
yum makecache

Also, check out the man page for yum and include options that could help

Regards,
Mugo.


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:11 PM, joe mwirigi <joemwirigi@gmail.com> wrote:
Not been a yum user [:( ] and am having trouble configuring the .repo
files for the right yum repositories. I've installed the priorities
plugin for extra flexibility  but keep on getting this
not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - Test mode - must
specify ip/cc, arch and repo as parameters
 wherever i do a yum install (save for a yumex install which went
well, below is a copy of my .repos, i wonder what im doing wron or not
doing right

Help or pointing in the right direction is highly appreciated!
Thanks b4 HaNd

yum.conf

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=1
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
http://www.ftp.saix.net/linux/distributions/centos/5.5/os/i386/
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/centos/5.5/os/i386/
http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/centos/5.5/os/i386/
http://centos.syn.co.il/5.5/os/i386/
http://mirror.vit.com.tr/mirror/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/
http://ftp.dgn.net.tr/linux/centos/5.5/os/i386/
http://ftp.linux.org.tr/centos/5.5/os/i386/
http://ftp.cica.es/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/
http://ftp.gui.uva.es/sites/centos.org/5.5/os/i386/
http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/
#in
/etc/yum.repos.d
#in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
#in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
#in /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

CentOS-Base.repo

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

priority=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=updates
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

priority=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=addons
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

priority=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=extras
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

priority=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=centosplus
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

priority=2
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=contrib
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

enabled=0
priority=2
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5



rpmforge.repo
[rpmforge]
name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
#baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist
= file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1
priority = 50
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