On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 19:06 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > 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 I did this by taking the old FC4 ".us.east" lists and (after confirmation of the repos) including them on my system. I wasn't sure that was the accepted usage, but now it seems so. I know there are probably myriad ways to accomplish this with a more user-friendly bent, but would it make sense for there to be a tool that asked the user to select a geographic region, and populated a local mirror list appropriately, using a remotely gathered list that included lat/long data? Does such a thing exist already and I'm just clueless? -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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