Fedora mirrors being wonky
This post is mostly so I remember this myself but when I logged into my VPS this evening and tried to use yum, I got the following silliness
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
I’m not really sure what’s going on over there but I’m impatient.
I just modified the mirrorlist line in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Fedora/$basearch/os
Extra points
If you add country=us, to the mirrorlist url, you’ll get a more restricted repository list.
