On Wednesday 24 December 2003 16:26, Daniel Robitaille wrote: > > Personally I find this process of manually trying to figure out the > actual URL of these yum repos very annoying. > It would be very nice if yum.conf came with dozens of these mirrors > commented out so that it simply a question of selecting one after > the installation. Or you could go and > uncomment all of them and let yum randomly pick one in the list to > spread out the load between mirrors (and away from redhat.com > servers). If you're considering putting up a web page with these URL's, here's a quick 5 minutes work digging out the first 10 candidates ..... ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i386 http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i386/ ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386 ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/updates/1/i386 ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386 http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/ ftp://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386 ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386 http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386 Regards, Mike Klinke
