On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:06:39AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Matt Domsch wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 04:41:12PM -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > >>Christopher Blizzard wrote: > >> > >>>Are people complaining? > >> > >>I don't complain when it happens with my own computer that's > >>being updated daily... but it's painful when you update a > >>dozen of desktops in the office to F7 and all them want to > >>download 500MB worth of updates the first time they boot. > >> > >>Yes, I could use a local Fedora mirror. And, in fact, > >>I do. But then I'd have to customize the yum config on > >>all clients to go look there. > > > >You can add your local private mirror to mirrormanager, add a netblock > >that covers your address space, and all your clients will then pull > >from your local mirror rather than public mirrors, with no change on > >the clients. > > > >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager > >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring > > (My definition of 'local' = in the same country or region of > countries. As shown in later messages, others want to create custom > repositories for organization's internal use, but that requires > different tools.) > > Even better would be that only local mirrors would be shown > automatically. Nowadays, countries with less than 3 mirrors don't get > this optimization. > > This would require rather simple updates to the > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist script. I really don't want to trust that the only mirror in a given country is active and fully up-to-date, and send everyone from that country to that single mirror. The thresshold is 3 per country to provide some reasonable guarantee that at least one of those 3 is active and up-to-date at any given instance. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
