Am Mi, den 17.03.2004 schrieb Keith Lofstrom um 07:37:
Meanwhile, the article:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
... suggests changing the yum.conf and the source file to point at one of
the mirror sites.
Hi Keith, I wrote the article and previously the mail on
fedora-list(a)redhat.com as a reaction on very, very much questions and
complaints about up2date / yum failures. There were at least 2 mails per
day asking if others see problems too. This especially occured when new
kernel and kernel-source packages came out, due to heavily overloaded
Redhat servers.
So, why not change the default configuration for the distro, so it
points
elsewhere? If there is no single site that can handle the load, it would
seem possible to create a target URL that can do some kind of automatic
redirect to multiple different mirrors. Later, with some coding effort,
improve the up2date button so it brings up a menu of plausible sites,
perhaps based on the time zone and other location information.
If you search this list's archive you will find discussion about
development of "artificial intelligent" mirror selection process /
setup.
It seems odd to ship something in a test distro that should always
be
changed to something else. Or do I need a visit from the clue stick?
On a test system you always have to lay your hands on several things -
that's why it's called "test" :) [But again, I did not wrote the
initial
mail and the later article for FC1 users mainly.]
Keith
Regards
Alexander
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