Up2date and yum configuration

[Colin Charles]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 17:37, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

Keith,

This kind of question belongs in fedora-list at redhat.com or even
fedora-test-list at redhat.com

> ... suggests changing the yum.conf and the source file to point at one of
> the mirror sites.

Alexander's article is meant for FC1 users, not FC2 test1 users.

> So, why not change the default configuration for the distro, so it points
> elsewhere?  If there is no single site that can handle the load, it would
> seem possible to create a target URL that can do some kind of automatic
> redirect to multiple different mirrors.  Later, with some coding effort,
> improve the up2date button so it brings up a menu of plausible sites,
> perhaps based on the time zone and other location information.

Mirror selection has gone into up2date, which is what you have in FC2
test1.

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