2011/8/11 Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 06:46 -0700, John Reiser wrote: >> On 08/11/2011 05:26 AM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: >> > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 18:26 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote: >> >> >> Last time i tried an install via bfo it didnt really select mirrors >> >> close to me. (i think for the install it didnt use a mirrorlist but >> >> instead a hardcoded repo by default) Is this still the case? >> >> > AFAIK, mirrors are choosed by MirrorManager running on >> > mirrors.fedoraproject.org which is used by yum and it's repos' >> > configuration. It's quite easy to find out which repos' urls are used >> > during the installation. >> >> Anaconda itself does not disclose the identity of any mirrors it uses, >> and after the install there is no record of which mirrors were used. >> Please specify exactly what you use to identify the specific mirrors. > > What I meant is that you can get repos' configuration (at least for > default repos) during installation: > 1) switch to shell (with Ctlr+F2) > 2) ls /etc/anaconda.repos.d/ > 3) cat SOME_REPO_CONFIG_FILE > > When I use this for 'fedora.repo' file I can see following line: > mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch > > which reveals the fact that yum (ran during the installation) will use > MirrorManager running on mirrors.fedoraproject.org (which is the same as > in an already installed system). > >> >> > But I doubt there are any different from urls >> > used everywhere else. >> >> The tail of the path (the filename and last few directory names) is certainly >> the same, but each mirror is free to place the tree arbitrarily in its >> filesystem, and many do. > > As I mentioned before, the MirrorManager is responsible for returning > the right mirrorlist already sorted out from the best mirror to the > worst one (see [1] if you are interested). You can test it by entering > mirrorlist URL into your web browser. > > So I really doubt it's somehow specific for the bfo. > Vratislav Podzimek well then it isnt anymore. kind regards, Rudolf Kastl > > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/mirrormanager/wiki > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
