At 5:38 PM -0600 6/19/07, 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? ... For FC6 and FC5 (not F7 yet -- I haven't installed F7), my stablemirror yum plugin uses the same mirror each time, as long as it is offered; makes Ctl-C work; and allows slow mirrors to be rejected temporarily or permanently without manual editing of its list of mirrors. <http://georgeanelson.com/stablemirror.htm> -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
