On Wednesday, 21 בMarch 2007 20:44, Nadav Har'El wrote: > If there were (or is) such an Israeli mirror, would "yum" automatically use > it for Israeli users?
The first problem is that it's not an "official" fedora mirror: http://rhold.fedoraproject.org/Download/mirrors.html So the default "mirrorlist=" directive in yum config files won't pull it. This can be fixed manually by: 1. using the "baseurl=" directive instead of "mirrorlist=" 2. wget the official mirrorlist into a local file, add the Israeli mirror and point: mirrorlist=file:///usr/local/share/mylocalcopy > Does yum try to choose the best mirror based on geography, connection > speed, or anything of this sort? yum install yum-fastestmirror # One of the yum plugins vim /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf # just to enable it > 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... The more acute problems are: 1. Is it updated frequently enough (Fedora policy is similar to Debian testing, almost daily updates). 2. Is it complete. E.g: the mirror pointed in this thread does not include Fedora-Extras. This repository is official, enabled by default since Fedora-4 and in Fedora-7 (due ~1 month) would be fused with Fedora-Core into a single entity. So currently I don't point to any Israeli mirror... -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 3Com only purchased rights to the numbers '3' '5' and '9', Intel owns '4', '8', '6', and '2'. '0' and '1' are still in the public domain ;-) -Donald Becker ================================================================= 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]
