On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 04:41:48PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > (a) trying several mirrors during install, to select the fastest ones. > yum can select among a list of mirrors, why not the installer? > > (b) having yum use the fast mirrors picked during install, by default. > yum picks random mirrors, which with my luck, often winds up being > somewhere 3000+ miles away from me, over a tiny and overloaded link. http://people.redhat.com/lmacken/fastestmirror.py works great for me. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
