Am Samstag, den 12.11.2005, 14:08 +0000 schrieb Jonathan Rawle: > I've disabled the mirrorlist= lines in my yum.repos.d because it was using > mirrors as far away as Japan and so was taking a long time to update. You can append ".us.east" or "us.west" to the mirrorlist statement. For a complete list of mirrorlists go to http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/ > Instead, I have picked a selection of local mirrors and listed those under > baseurl=, with the main Fedora server as a last resort. > > To ensure it uses the fastest mirror first, and that it doesn't use the US > server, I've added: > > failovermethod=priority > > This behaves correctly in that it uses the first mirror on the list. > However, if there is an error on the first mirror, it doesn't attempt to > contact subsequent mirrors, and just exits with an error. Has anyone else > found this? > Nope. > > Jonathan > Christoph
