Yum, the repo, and failed dependencies

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Thu Aug 9 21:49:32 UTC 2007


At 7:29 PM +0200 8/9/07, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>> I don't think most of us have been having such issues, so it may be a
>> problem with some of the mirrors in the "localized" mirrorlist yum is
>> getting.
>
>I don't think so, as I don't get a localized mirrorlist. The only
>parameters are fedora release version (7) and architecture (x86_64).
 ...

And your IP address, and the knowledge of which mirrors were up-to-date
last time it checked.  It uses that and something like GeoIP to deliver a
customized mirrorlist.  Go on, try it.  Mine says it's for the US and
contained 32 mirrors when I posted last, and 20 now.
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