William Hooper wrote:
It's not obvious that yum exists, either. I would guess that the
inexperienced user would be hitting the flashing red !.
Likely.
I then tried up2date commandline (acually, I know about that). I don't
recall now my objections to that.
>nor is it obvious what the allowable values are.
I think it is pretty obvious that a 404 error isn't a mirror list.
That's one way of cataloguing a large number of wrong values.
>It _should_ be, it _could_ be easier. It is something that should be set
>on every installation, values that suit Aussies won't suit Canucks. There
>is not a good default.
Sure there is a good default. One that works, which is what we have now.
hey, my Navara (Pathfinder to yanks) only fires on two cilinders, what's
the problem?
It can do better,
A default selection based on time zone would work for many people. I
select "Australia/Perth" and that self-same selection should give me
WAIX-connected mirrors plus Optus and Telstra to choose from. Or for yum
to roll around.
Heck, most people that post here don't like the mirror list (out of sync
rhn-applet, different results on different runs while mirror are syncing,
etc.) and end up hard coding the mirror they want anyway. If you have the
ability to choose a mirror to download the ISOs from, you have the ability
to set the appropriate mirror the yum and up2date configurations.
"most people here" not "most users" nor "prospective users."
I wish to
see a soln that works for those. Myself, I can defeat most difficulties
and have been doing so for years. Check my name at
googlism.com - those
mentioning OS/2 are me. Have some fun with your own name while youre at it.
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