Re: yup


Subject: Re: yup
From: Jerry S. (jer_57@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 06:51:32 MST


Howdy Geert,

  try doing:
  yup clean all
  then
  yup config [dist/ftp]

  This appears to have been an issue that isn't resolved yet. The
  above commands should get you up and running. That is what it took
  for me to get my machines working anyway.

  Jerry S.

Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 6:27:44 AM, you wrote:

GJ> Hello,

GJ> I have installed YDL 2.1 on a beige G3 for a couple of weeks now.

GJ> I am quite pleased with it.

GJ> There are still a few issues I don't seem to be able to fix. I'll put
GJ> them in separate e-mails to simplify followups.

GJ> Issue #3 : yup.

GJ> I tried to use yup for the first time yesterday, but that didn't work.
GJ> Apparently, I am not the first to ask questions about yup on this
GJ> mailing list, but I didn't find an answer to my problem in the archives.

GJ> This is what I did (as root):
GJ> [root@g3ydl root]# yup config mirror

GJ> The following message appears:
GJ> Retrieving http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/yup/yup.master.txt

GJ> After some time, the program exits with the following message:
GJ> Traceback (innermost last):
GJ> File "/usr/sbin/yup", line 29, in ?
GJ> yup.main()
GJ> File "/usr/lib/yup/yup.py", line 271, in main
GJ> yupmirrors.UpdateMirrorList()
GJ> File "/usr/lib/yup/yupmirrors.py", line 127, in UpdateMirrorList
GJ> yupurl.retrieve(url, '%s/mirror-list' %(yupcfg.cfg.cachedir), callback)
GJ> File "/usr/lib/yup/yupurl.py", line 45, in retrieve
GJ> eval(scheme + '_getfile')(url, outfile, callback, previous)
GJ> File "/usr/lib/yup/yupurl.py", line 94, in http_getfile
GJ> http_session = httplib.HTTP(netloc)
GJ> File "/usr/lib/python1.5/httplib.py", line 53, in __init__
GJ> if host: self.connect(host, port)
GJ> File "/usr/lib/python1.5/httplib.py", line 81, in connect
GJ> self.sock.connect(host, port)
GJ> socket.error: (110, 'Connection timed out')

GJ> I'm connected to the internet via a cable modem. In the archives I read
GJ> someone was having problems because he could only connect via a proxy,
GJ> and yup might not support that.

GJ> There as no solution given in that thread, so I'm stuck.

GJ> How can I get yup to work ?

GJ> TIA,
GJ> Geert Janssens

-- 
Best regards,
 Jerry                            mailto:jer_57@yahoo.com

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