On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 02:37 PM, Kam Leo wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > Thank you for correcting that, Kam. Does this mean yum uses my preferred > mirror and falls back to the other mirror when it is not working? > Yes. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
