Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[Jay Lee]

Charles E Taylor IV wrote:

>On Wed, 4 May 2005 14:25:59 -0400 (EDT)
>"William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Les Mikesell wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:32, William Hooper wrote:
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>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>Does yum pick a mirror at random now?
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>>>>It is configured to do that be default now, yes.
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>>>Ouch - that is very cache-unfriendly.
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>>It is much, much more mirror friendly, though.
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>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.
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>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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Looking at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/ there are 
a number of options to pick from.  Editing /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources 
and adding .us.east to the end of both yum-mirror lines would force 
up2date to only use mirrors on the US East Coast.  Looks like there's 
indiv lists for other countries to.  Of course, you could just pick a 
mirror you prefer, comment out the yum-mirror and yum lines and add one 
directly to your preferred mirror.

Jay

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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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