On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 22:48 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > 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/> > Hi Tony Just to say I have tried Stablemirror on F7 (having used it with FC5 and 6 ) Looking forward to the next version !!!!!!!! John ############################################################################ [root@naxos pluginconf.d]# yum --enable=livna install amule Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "stablemirror" plugin stablemirror: the easily edited stablemirror file is "/var/cache/yum/stablemirro rs" stablemirror: no stablemirror file Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 264, in doCommands return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, sel f.extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 134, in doCommand return base.installPkgs(extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 435, in installPkgs self.pkgSack.matchPackageNames(arglist) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 501, in <lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 382, in _getSack s self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 206, in populateSac k sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 141, in populate if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 198, in _check_db _version if repo.repoXML.repoData.has_key(mdtype): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 684, in <lambda> repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(), File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 678, in _getRepoX ML self._loadRepoXML(text=self) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 661, in _loadRepo XML cache=self.http_caching == 'all') File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 565, in _getFile http_headers=headers, File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 411, in url grab return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 397, in _mi rror_try return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs ) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 927, in ur lgrab return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 845, in _r etry r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {}) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 922, in re tryfunc apply(cb_func, (obj, )+cb_args, cb_kwargs) File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/stablemirror.py", line 363, in our_checkRepoXML if not self.local_repoXML: AttributeError: 'YumRepository' object has no attribute 'local_repoXML' [root@naxos pluginconf.d]#
