[Novalug] Fedora Repos

Mark A. Metz mametz@aol.com
Mon Nov 14 20:11:10 EST 2011


Sounds like a plan.

How can I tell what domain I'm downloading from?  Is it somewhere up the terminal lines after the install command?

Paul, is that you impersonating the Hulk in the Photobooth ad from the Fedora home page?


On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:16 AM, "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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