Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[John Summerfied]

William Hooper wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> [snip]
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>>>>you wouldn't have to keep redistributing the mirror list,
>>>
>>>
>>>It's 2K, not that big of a deal.
>>>
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>>The current implementation is.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>I suspect that most of the improvement in the second run occured because
>>the disk data was mostly cached.
> 
> 
> What does this have to do with fetching the mirror list?

It was doing _something_ during all that time. What it was it didn't 
show, whether it was the mirror list or the metadata from yet another 
mirror or both, I could not see.

Whatever, it's slow.



> 
> The same can be done with Yum by using "Exclude".
> 

Thanks.


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