On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Mike Klinke wrote: > > Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 08:53, Adam Lanier wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 09:39, Tom Mitchell wrote: > > > > Currently missing in both up2date and yum packages is packaged > > > > information on known mirror sites. Perhaps if 'famous' mirrors ... > > > Good point. Is there a list of mirrors somewhere? > > > > See this page: > > > > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html In a hurry I said: > Some of these do not seem to be 'yum' ready. Perhaps > I have had too much rum fruitcake. > > Running up2date.... it seems the headers are not handy. After some eggnog (just kidding) and scratching my head http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html is a starting point to compose your Fedora config lines for yum or up2date. It dawns on me that this download/mirrors.html is for lots of different redhat distributions. So... To get the full path it may be necessary to visit the site by hand with a browser and drill down a little. Good guesses may work once the structure is understood. For example on the mirrors.html page there is a line: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/ For Fedora this needs to be more fully qualified. Something like this pair: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i386/ http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/1/i386/os/ <--unchecked Anyhow by running the tool from a command line and paying attention to the error boxes it is possible to drill down and find what you need to add to the basic mirror URL be it http or ftp. So far the mirrors I have selected are faster... so this is worth doing. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48 -a*t- yahoo-dot-com
