James Wilkinson: >>> The most prosaic one is that it isn't trivial for yum to work out >>> which continent a user is on. Tim: >> Surely it is. Just read the information stating what timezone the >> computer is located in. Paul Howarth: > Which would make yum think that London and Cape Town were close to each > other... That rather depends on what system of identifying the timezone you use. The stupid CST, EST, etc., names are useless. But if you set your timezone as something like Australia/Adelaide, etc., the continent has been identified. In a case like mine, it would make sense for the update process to try an Australian mirror first. It might even be good if I could specify a preferred server that will be tried first, before picking a random mirror. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
