2009/4/11 Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I was just poking around in the available yum plugins and I >> didn't see one for blacklisting mirrors. Is there something >> that will allow me to do that, and I just didn't recognize >> it from the description? >> >> I'm basically ready to give up on mirrors.liberty.edu since >> yum keeps trying to use it, timing out, and picking a different >> mirror. I'd like to tell it to stop wasting time ever >> trying that particular mirror (don't know if it is a problem >> with that mirror or just the path from here to there). >> > > Tom, get with the program and do a little reading. Edit your repo > file(s) and change the baseurl to point to the server you want to use. What the heck? That's a pretty rude response and hard-coding a particular mirror is not the preferred method, because mirrors are considered ephemeral. Tom, I use yum-fastestmirror - it may do what you want by sticking you to a much faster mirror than the liberty.edu one. -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
