Core BrainStorm

[Matt Domsch]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 04:41:48PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> (a) trying several mirrors during install, to select the fastest ones.
> yum can select among a list of mirrors, why not the installer?
> 
> (b) having yum use the fast mirrors picked during install, by default.
> yum picks random mirrors, which with my luck, often winds up being
> somewhere 3000+ miles away from me, over a tiny and overloaded link.

http://people.redhat.com/lmacken/fastestmirror.py
works great for me.

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Matt Domsch
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