[ANN] stablemirror - a yum plugin for stable, up-to-date mirrors

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jun 14 01:17:09 UTC 2006


At 4:01 PM -0400 6/13/06, Joe Smith wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>> Stablemirror is a yum plugin to choose a stable, working, up-to-date
> > mirror each time. ... I hope to get feedback on stablemirrors before
>> submitting it as a RFE for yum plugins.
>
>No problems here: great job.

Good to hear.


>This issue has made it a real nuisance to keep Fedora updated. I loved
>the old 'redhat network' update process and would have gladly paid to
>keep it. The free alternative was almost useless until the mirrors
>became discoverable, then only slightly better because there were so
>many broken down mirrors. This seems like it should fix the remaining
>update issues.

Ha!  You wish.  It merely unmasks the rest of the problems.


>Thanks again!

You're welcome.
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