CentOS - May 2007 - Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.5 is released for i386, x86_64, and ia64

>If you are currently using another version CentOS-4 version, using this
>command will upgrade you to CentOS-4.5:
>
>yum update
That doesn't work with a fresh install of 4.2 (from the Linux Magazine cover
DVD, April '06).  'yum update' gives the following output:

    --------------------------
# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  25 kB    00:06
update    : ################################################## 104/104
Added 104 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.20 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  40 kB    00:17
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4]
Socket
Error: timed out
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors
to try.
    --------------------------

I encountered this problem a long time ago but haven't had time to look at
it
more closely since.  Now would be a good time to solve it, so I'd welcome
any
ideas.

  Cheers,
  Chris

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:09 +0100, Chris Date wrote:
> >If you are currently using another version CentOS-4 version, using this
> >command will upgrade you to CentOS-4.5:
> >
> >yum update
> 
> That doesn't work with a fresh install of 4.2 (from the Linux Magazine
cover
> DVD, April '06).  'yum update' gives the following output:
> 
>     --------------------------
> # yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  25 kB    00:06
> update    : ################################################## 104/104
> Added 104 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.20 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  40 kB    00:17
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno
4]
> Socket
> Error: timed out
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from base: [Errno 256] No more
mirrors
> to try.
>     --------------------------
> 
> I encountered this problem a long time ago but haven't had time to look
at it
> more closely since.  Now would be a good time to solve it, so I'd
welcome any
> ideas.
I don't know if it may be related, but there has been a couple updates
of yum since 4.2. I recall one required that yum be updated first.

    yum update yum

and the latest one added new features. Try doing the update of yum and
see if it helps?
> 
>   Cheers,
>   Chris
> <snip sig stuff>
HTH
--
Bill