FC3 - yum.conf and yum.repos.d files

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 19:06 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> Yeah - some of the mirrors in the list could be at the other end of
> the globe - there is no way yum can choose the best mirror for the
> user.
> 
> So, we have 2 alternatives:
> 
>  - let yum choose a mirror - and if you think its slow do
>    'Ctrl-C'. Yum will skip it - and try the next one. After the
>    downloads are done - another invocation of yum will install the
>    packages.
> 
>  - If there is a reliable/fast mirror closeby - then use 'baseurl'
>    instead of 'mirrorlist' in /etc/yum.repo.d/*repo files.

Or you could set up your own mirrorlist of nearby/fast/reliable mirrors,
as described at :http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>