John Summerfied wrote: > William Hooper 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. >> > > It's hopeless. Mirrors that only serve their country or smaller > geographic region are excluded. Such as Planetmirror, Australia's larget, > AARNET that serves Australia's education community, WAIX that > serves select Western Australian IAPs (those who contribute) along with > eqquivalents in other Australian states. Nothing is stopping you from either using your own mirror list, or not using a mirror list at all and configuring a single mirror. > It's hopeless. I'm on dialup, There is no possibility of my > well-configured Squid caching stuff, and there is too much to realistically > download stuff multiple times. Both the above will fix that problem. > For folk in my position, apt-get has an option to print the URIs for > required packages. Perhaps you should watch this RFE: https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=396 -- William Hooper
