kwhiskerz wrote:
> I have noticed that I always get University of Sherbrooke in Québec
> and the linux users group in Manitoba as my yum mirrors.
>
> They are soooo lame! I have tried to break them off to get a better
> mirror, and what happens? I get one file, and then yum switches back
> to those other two!
>
> I presume that they are being chosen because I live in Canada, but
> there are other mirrors, many of them, that are much faster.
>
> How can I get yum to stop choosing lame mirros because of an
> apparent proximity to my home and start using the fast mirrors?
I think that the yum-fastestmirror plugin is designed to do what you
want. I've not used it though, so I can't say whether it works with
the new mirror manager setup or not. But if no one points you to
anything better, it's definitely worth trying.
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