On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:38:31PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >Gerry Reno wrote: > >>If the mirrors are following this guideline and rsync works like > >>stated, then why do we keep hitting broken mirrors when there is a > >>big sync? > >> > >>Regards, > >>Gerry > >> > > > >Those mirrors should be identified and removed from the mirror lists. > >Yum should be able to report to some entity about a problem mirror. > >Sure, not automatically but after someone in Fedora rel-eng reviews > >the reports. Perhaps ask the user when an error occurs: Do you wish to > >report a problem? > > > >Reportable reasons: > >1) performance issues (high latency) > >2) dependency errors > >3) missing files > > > >Possibly more. Most of all I'm tired of hitting a high latency mirror > >and the only way around it is to add it to my /etc/hosts file as > >localhost so that it will error and go on to a faster mirror. > > > I just add those to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf: > > exclude=MIRROR MIRROR MIRROR Which mirrors please? Thanks, Matt Fedora Mirror Wrangler -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
