On Sep 17, 2015 06:46, "Marcin Juszkiewicz" <mjuszkiewicz(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
My traceroute [v0.85]
This is my connection to
pkgs.fedoraproject.org machine. Fetching 48MB
archive reached 36% in 2 (two) hours...
We ship binaries through mirrors all around the world. yum/dnf knows how
to use
them to get packages in a quick way. Knows how to handle lack of
connection etc.
But sources used to build packages came from one place. ONE...
Why? Why we are not have them mirrored?
I would talk with the mirrors in your area and find out why they don't
mirror it. Mirroring is a volunteer activity and mirrors do what they think
will be useful for users near them.
And to pre-answer something that might be related, there is no budget to
put this into a CDN. Those are extremely expensive operations and do not
volunteer space.