On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:32 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:02 -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote: > > The "fastestmirror" yum plugin is your friend - I really think it should > > be part of the default install! > > yum install yum-fastestmirror > > It's not my friend. It seems to always pick the worst mirrors possible. > It shouldn't take 5 minutes to download 100k. In particular, > mirror.clarkson.edu always seems to top the list, and I can only seem to > get about 300bps sustained from them... > > Mirrors need to be ranked by actual download rate, not whatever it is > yum-fastestmirror is doing. (It appears to be simply timing how long it > takes to connect()...) Then do so! :) You can make your own mirrorlist for your own use if you want. just put the baseurl of the sites you like in a file somewhere on your system then refer to the file in the repo section in the .repo file like this: [myrepo] name=some repo mirrorlist=file:///path/to/my/mirrorlist that's it! -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
