yum repositories slow?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 07.03.2004 schrieb Swamper um 21:59:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:26:04PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am So, den 07.03.2004 schrieb Swamper um 20:12:
> > 
> > > It took almost 24hrs to do the initial update on my laptop
> > 
> > And you really make use of mirror server(s) as source?
> 
> I was afraid to make any changes... just typed yum -y update and
> headed to the beach.

Well, then no wonder ... The fact was discussed so many time now. See

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/

I some time ago tried to explain what to do and even why.

Alexander


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