problem doing software updates using yum command, pls help

[ravifrequent]

hi,

im unable to do software updates for my fc5 linux. this is the error i get. please help me

[root@localhost ~]# yum install flash-plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
livna [1/7]
livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
flash [2/7]
flash 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
core [3/7]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
jpackage-fedora [4/7]
jpackage-fedora 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates [5/7]
updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00
jpackage-generic [6/7]
jpackage-generic 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras [7/7]
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distr...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:38:52 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Content-Length: 348
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 5.7 kB 00:00
jpackage-f: ################################################## 25/25
Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.09 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 32 kB 00:18
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1...rimary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz


what shall i do??

please help me
thanks

[ravifrequent]

hi

when i do a yum command. how do i know from which configuration file its taking the website from which it shud download the files??

i there any way i can tell yum from which website it shud download.

is that information stored anywhere in linux??

also which is the most preferred website from which i can download the updates through yum command

thanks

[redhead]

First of, I've had nothing todo with Fedora so this is what a quick search on google came up with.
From the unofficial fedora FAQ Yums sources are specified through /etc/yum.conf
Check the last few lines saying

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

This indicates that the repositories you're using are listed in file.repo located in /etc/yum.repos.d/

By the way, I did stumble onto this interresting advice

[pbharris]

hello,
each repo is listed in the directory /etc/yum.repos.d/
these can be enabled or disabled by setting the enabled flag to '1' - here is an example of an enabled one:

pbharris@bugs:[~]:cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo 
[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

to disable it you can make this value zero also. If it is already disabled and you do not wish to edit the file run this yum --enablerepo=name.repo where name.repo is in directory /etc/yum.repos.d/ .

If you wish to disable a repo on a repo that is enabled by default run yum --disablerepo=name.repo


hth