Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[Charles E Taylor IV]

On Wed, 4 May 2005 14:25:59 -0400 (EDT)
"William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:32, William Hooper wrote:

> >>>> Update lists mirrors; it seems that Yum downloads a fresh list each
> >>>>  time (yuck, I'd rather see the list in an rpm that's updated as
> >>>> needed), so that should be a quick fix. Once a mirror fixes its
> >>>> problems, relist it.

> >>> Does yum pick a mirror at random now?

> >> It is configured to do that be default now, yes.

> > Ouch - that is very cache-unfriendly.

> It is much, much more mirror friendly, though.

Is there any way to easily configure *which* mirrors get looked at?  I
notice that seemingly every other yum run I end up accessing an overseas
mirror at a very slow connection speed.  It'd probably be better if my
US-based machines tried to access US-based mirrors rather than European
ones.

Or would it be best to just (in the ,repo files) choose a close mirror as
"baseurl" and comment out "mirrorlist" entirely?

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