Fedora ftp site?

[Richard Ayer III]

Maybe the mirrors and the main rawhide could all have an hour of scheduled
downtime every day or two in order be sure things are sync'ed up?

Richard Ayer III

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net>
To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora ftp site?


>
> Roland Wolters said:
> > Once upon a time William Hooper wrote:
> >> I don't understand what up2date isn't doing that you want it to.  It
> >> seems
> >> to me that it is doing exactly what you are asking.  By default it gets
> >> a
> >> list of mirror servers and picks one.  Alternatively, you can specify
> >> your
> >>
> >> own list of mirrors.  Isn't this exactly what you described:
> >> >>>>> I can't understand why Fedora don't add a feature to change the
> >> >>>>> mirrors automatically by chance or manual
> >
> > It seems to me that the list of mirrors is only a list of not working
> > mirrors:
>
> This is not what you originally said.  "Doesn't use mirrors" and "These
> specific mirrors have problems" are two different things.
>
> As Seth mentions, rawhide is very difficult to mirror.  It is a lot of
> traffic every night, unlike mirroring fedora-updates.
>
> > it never switched to german mirrors I had to add them to the sources
list
> > for
> > my own - and then everything worked great.
> > Maybe the only problem was a bad list of mirrors or that up2date do not
> > choose
> > the mirrors depend on the place were the computer with the fedora is
> > located
> > to - or am I wrong?
>
>
> I'm not sure how it will be handled, but it appears that plans for
> location based mirror lists are in the works.
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/
>
> Getting the list of default mirrors is pretty easy:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide
>
> I agree that it is a short list but, because of the amount of traffic that
> rawhide generates, I think adding more mirrors would actually make it
> worse.
>
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> William Hooper
>
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