On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:17, Kevin Old wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In FC 3 I like the *new* yum that automatically selects a mirror, very > nice. There's only one problem with it. In the few updates I've done > over the past few days, I always seem to get some mirror that is > extremely slow in some country across the globe. > > Two questions: > > 1) Why doesn't yum find the *closest* (or one of) mirror to me? > Yum does NOT automatically find the mirror. Look at /etc/yum.repos.d and the repository files are there. You still have to add your favorite repository to yum, either in yum.conf or in the repos directory > 2) When downloading updates for openoffice which are larger than > normal packages, I got frustrated when I had a 2 hour download time > and wanted to quit yum and do the updates later. I did a CTRL+C and > got the following message: > > [Errno 4] Socket Error: (4, 'Interrupted system call') > Trying other mirror. > > It then jumped to another mirror and continued the download much much > much faster. After it finished the download, yum quit. I had to do > "yum update" again for it to install the packages. Anyone know if > there a more "graceful" way to switch mirrors, if the one I'm on is > slow? > > Thanks, > Kevin > -- > Kevin Old > kevinold@xxxxxxxxx
