Re: FC3 - yum.conf and yum.repos.d files

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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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/

Or atleast change to the mirrorlist to a more apporpriate one from:

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/

I'm using .us.east suffix to the defaults.

Satish


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