On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 19:06 -0600, Satish Balay wrote: > Yeah - some of the mirrors in the list could be at the other end of > the globe - there is no way yum can choose the best mirror for the > user. > > So, we have 2 alternatives: > > - let yum choose a mirror - and if you think its slow do > 'Ctrl-C'. Yum will skip it - and try the next one. After the > downloads are done - another invocation of yum will install the > packages. > > - If there is a reliable/fast mirror closeby - then use 'baseurl' > instead of 'mirrorlist' in /etc/yum.repo.d/*repo files. Or you could set up your own mirrorlist of nearby/fast/reliable mirrors, as described at :http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/ Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
