up2date not automatic

[Mike Klinke]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 16:26, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
 
>
> Personally I find this process of manually trying to figure out the
> actual URL of these yum repos very annoying.
> It would be very nice if yum.conf came with dozens of these mirrors
> commented out so that it simply a question of selecting one after
> the installation.  Or you could go and
> uncomment all of them and let yum randomly pick one in the list to
> spread out the load between mirrors (and away from redhat.com
> servers).


If you're considering putting up a web page with these URL's, here's a 
quick 5 minutes work digging out the first 10 candidates .....


ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i386
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i386/
ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386
ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/updates/1/i386
ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386
http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
ftp://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386
ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386

Regards,  Mike Klinke