On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:45 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jwalant, > > Could you please stick to the posting guidelines for the list? Top > posting makes reading and replying in context rather cumbersome. Now > about the issue at hand ... > > 2009/9/15 Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji <jwalant.soneji@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi Suvayu, >> >> 2009/9/15 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> On Monday 14 September 2009 06:42 PM, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote: >>>> >>>> Meanwhile, what I did was to copy the base URL and paste it in to the >>>> browser address bar. Tried to open each URL, removing last tag if not >>>> found. >>>> This way, it put me to the nearest URL (IITK, India). And then selected >>>> F10, >>>> i386/686, and thus got the new URL, which I pasted in the repo files. It >>>> seems to be working. >>> >>> Or you could have just looked here, :-p >>> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/ >>> >> Thanks! >> Please confirm that replacing the base URL with the nearest server address >> no negative consequences. >> > > If you comment out the mirrorlist line and replace the baseurl line > with a mirror of your choice there shouldn't be any problems. > > However you do limit receiving updates for your system by becoming > dependent on one particular mirror. If that mirror goes down for some > reason, you would need to edit the line again to be able to update > your system. In your case however this doesn't make much of a > difference because afaik the IITK mirror is the only mirror anywhere > near India. The above information is not correct. Yum allows use of multiple repos. Here's a snippet from "man yum.conf": baseurl Must be a URL to the directory where the yum repository’s ‘repo- data’ directory lives. Can be an http://, ftp:// or file:// URL. You can specify multiple URLs in one baseurl statement. The best way to do this is like this: [repositoryid] name=Some name for this repository baseurl=url://server1/path/to/repository/ url://server2/path/to/repository/ url://server3/path/to/repository/ If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository you will find yum will ignore the earlier ones and probably act bizarrely. Don’t do this, you’ve been warned. You can use HTTP basic auth by prepending "user:password@" to the server name in the baseurl line. For example: "baseurl=http://user:passwd@xxxxxxxxxxx/";. EXAMPLE: $ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo [updates] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ #mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch > Hope this was helpful > > PS: We should have more mirrors in India, there is a lot of potential > for Fedora to grow there considering the economics of the region. > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
