The *new* yum - gracefully changing mirrors

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:17, Kevin Old wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> In FC 3 I like the *new* yum that automatically selects a mirror, very
> nice.  There's only one problem with it.  In the few updates I've done
> over the past few days, I always seem to get some mirror that is
> extremely slow in some country across the globe.
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1) Why doesn't yum find the *closest* (or one of) mirror to me?
> 

Yum does NOT automatically find the mirror.
Look at /etc/yum.repos.d and the repository files are there.

You still have to add your favorite repository to yum, either in
yum.conf or in the repos directory

> 2) When downloading updates for openoffice which are larger than
> normal packages, I got frustrated when I had a 2 hour download time
> and wanted to quit yum and do the updates later.  I did a CTRL+C and
> got the following message:
> 
> [Errno 4] Socket Error: (4, 'Interrupted system call')
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> It then jumped to another mirror and continued the download much much
> much faster.  After it finished the download, yum quit.  I had to do
> "yum update" again for it to install the packages.  Anyone know if
> there a more "graceful" way to switch mirrors, if the one I'm on is
> slow?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> -- 
> Kevin Old
> kevinold at gmail.com