I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically
choosing sites for downloading.
I have just upgraded to CentOS 5.2. When I look for a mirror, I get many
choices from Taiwan. Since I am in Hong Kong this makes sense
geographically but .... not in terms of bandwidth.
Although Taiwan is very close, it is almost the slowest connection I can
make. Some .jp sites are good but I find .sg or the US is usually best.
This morning I tried to update to the new kernel (92.1.6). My system
seemed to die during the download. After some investigation, I found
that Yum et al is being defaulted to .tw sites. (base, updates, add ons
all go to .tw.) I have now been sitting at base primary.xml.gz for over
15 minutes and am only about 50% done.
Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual
bandwidth and not just geographical closeness?
Mel
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