yum version of "apt-get mirror-select"

[Luke Macken]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:19 -0700, MJang wrote:
> mirror-select is not a package. It is an option for the RPM version of
> apt-get which can help determine the most appropriate repository, based
> either on a predetermined list, or two or more input URLs. It's sort of
> like netselect for Debian. I don't know if there are any plans to
> incorporate the option into yum. If not, I'll make a feature request.

Smart mirror selection will hopefully become a part of urlgrabber/yum in
the near future, but in the mean time I wrote a plugin,
fastestmirror[0], for yum (>= 2.4.0) to quickly determine the fastest
download mirror.

luke

[0]: http://people.redhat.com/lmacken/fastestmirror.py