On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:43:49PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > > 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. > > 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 I have extended the script to use the best n mirrors and not only one. The number of mirrors to use can be specified on the commandline. I am, however, not using the mirrorlist directive but just appending multiple servers to the baseurl directive. http://lisas.de/~adrian/rpm/netselect-0.3-0.fdr.3.i386.rpm http://lisas.de/~adrian/rpm/netselect-0.3-0.fdr.3.src.rpm http://lisas.de/~adrian/rpm/netselect-yum-0.3-0.fdr.3.i386.rpm Gentoo use the same technique to determine the best mirror. In addition to using netselect they offer to meassure the bandwidth by downloading a 100KB file from each mirror. Adrian
