On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:44:00PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > If there were (or is) such an Israeli mirror, would "yum" automatically use > it for Israeli users? > > Does yum try to choose the best mirror based on geography, connection > speed, or anything of this sort? > > Unfortunately, last time I inquired, the answer was (if I understood > correctly), no, which would make it rather pointless to have an Israeli > yum repository...
AFAIK no, what you have to do is to pick the mirror that you want to use and turn off the one that it mirrors. For example if the local mirror is of the fedora base, then you turn it off. What you loose is the automatic switching if it's not available, and obviously there is a delay in the packages showing up. On the other hand, if I can download the packages at 400k bytes per second instead of 20k, or on a really good day 100k, I'll be happy. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
