The new feature in yum to use a mirrorlist instead of everbody donwloading from download.fedora.redhat.com is great. Unfortunately yum sometimes seems to download from the mirror furthest away and the downloads are really slow. But as I was to lazy to edit all the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ to use the closest mirror I have written a small script which tries to determine the best mirror, removes the mirrorlist directive from the repo file and appends a baseurl line with the best mirror. If anyone is interested the script can be found at: http://lisas.de/~adrian/rpm/netselect-0.3-0.fdr.2.i386.rpm http://lisas.de/~adrian/rpm/netselect-0.3-0.fdr.2.src.rpm http://lisas.de/~adrian/rpm/netselect-yum-0.3-0.fdr.2.i386.rpm All this is more or less just copied (inspired) by debian's netselect-apt. Adrian
