[Novalug] Fedora Repos
Paul W. Frields
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Mon Nov 14 08:16:16 EST 2011
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 08:44:09PM -0500, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> On 11/13/2011 3:47 PM, greg pryzby wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Mark A. Metz<mametz@aol.com> wrote:
> >> Okay, so maybe the Fedora server has a problem.
> >
> > If things are slow downloading, I<Ctrl>C and run again.
>
> Yup. Yum will continue to the "next site" if there is one.
>
> Also...yum clean all will remove, among other things, the "timing file"
> that lists which servers are the fastest.
>
> Next time you might get luckier, as the Internet* changes daily.
>
> JIM
>
> * like a system of tubes...
With the 'yum-fastestmirror' plugin you can eliminate these slow
sites. The plugin's /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf file
will allow you to exclude the laggy domain from test results. Voila,
no more Ctrl+C needed. You might also want to email the domain owner
to see what's going on.
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