Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2005 14:25:59 -0400 (EDT)
"William Hooper" <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:32, William Hooper wrote:
Update lists mirrors; it seems that Yum downloads a fresh list each
time (yuck, I'd rather see the list in an rpm that's updated as
needed), so that should be a quick fix. Once a mirror fixes its
problems, relist it.
Does yum pick a mirror at random now?
It is configured to do that be default now, yes.
Ouch - that is very cache-unfriendly.
It is much, much more mirror friendly, though.
Is there any way to easily configure *which* mirrors get looked at? I
notice that seemingly every other yum run I end up accessing an overseas
mirror at a very slow connection speed. It'd probably be better if my
US-based machines tried to access US-based mirrors rather than European
ones.
Or would it be best to just (in the ,repo files) choose a close mirror as
"baseurl" and comment out "mirrorlist" entirely?
Looking at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/ there are
a number of options to pick from. Editing /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
and adding .us.east to the end of both yum-mirror lines would force
up2date to only use mirrors on the US East Coast. Looks like there's
indiv lists for other countries to. Of course, you could just pick a
mirror you prefer, comment out the yum-mirror and yum lines and add one
directly to your preferred mirror.
Jay
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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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