Adrian Reber wrote : > 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. Haven't looked at this yet, but how about selecting more than one mirror (e.g. the 5 best), creating a local yum mirror file, and pointing yum's configuration to that file:///path/to/that/mirrorlist? I really like the fact that yum tries another server when one doesn't seem to respond, which wouldn't be the case anymore with a single baseurl configured. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux kernel 2.6.9-1.667.radeonfb Load : 0.27 0.31 0.62
