Fedora ftp site?

[William Hooper]

Roland Wolters said:
>> > I can't understand why Fedora don't add a feature to change the
>> mirrors
>> > automatically by chance or manual - the standards are to get the
>> packages
>> > from the main Server, that cannot be the best way.
>>
>> Have you ran the up2date from FC2test1?
>
> Yes, sure. I started up2date, and it looked up servers,

Which is exactly what you are asking for.

> which were all
> somewhere in the USA and very slow - I switched it manually to some
> high-up-to-date servers in Germany, and everything works fine and fast.

You can specify your own mirror list.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg01346.html

> I can't see why they are using the main server for any up2date function: I
> would only use mirror server, and the mainserver just to give the packets
> to
> other mirrors.

Having the mirror list on the server allows you to add and remove mirror
servers as needed.  It makes much more sense then trying to get everyone
to update a local file (which is basically what the problem is now).

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William Hooper