blacklist mirrors?

David dgboles at comcast.net
Sat Apr 11 17:52:10 UTC 2009


On 4/11/2009 12:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:24:10 +0100
> Sharpe, Sam J wrote:

>> Tom, I use yum-fastestmirror - it may do what you want by sticking you
>> to a much faster mirror than the liberty.edu one.

> I do use fastestmirror: I guess when it works, liberty.edu is
> fast, but it spends a lot of time not working.

> Maybe I'll see if I can figure out how to write a new yum plugin
> if I get more annoyed than I am now :-).


It's been a while since I used yum-fastestmirror but it used to write a
text-type file of the mirror names. Fastest at the top. If it still does you
could edit the list.

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  David




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