On 05.05.2013 21:49, Mike Wright wrote: > 05/05/2013 12:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 12:12 -0400, Fernando Cassia wrote: >>> Is there any rationale for NOT making yum-fastestmirror the default?? >> >> Because it doesn't work? The heuristic it uses is far too simple-minded. >> I've often had to hand-edit the mirror list to stop it trying to >> download from nearby mirrors which have low latency but also very low >> bandwidth. >> > That's not the only thing simple minded about yum. > > One simple improvement would be to tell which mirror it's connecting to. > I've been trying to yum update f18 all day and it keeps choosing the > same damn mirror (no idea which) with a whopping 7.9k data rate. f27 > will be out before this joke is done. http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=summary … tags 20 months ago yum-utils-1.1.31 … . . . Fedora release 27 (Just a Daisy)[1] … tags 6 years ago yum-utils-1.1.31 …[1] :) poma [1] All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
