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
