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?
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