On 26/08/11 17:55, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Troy Dawson<[email protected]> wrote:
On 08/26/2011 11:22 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
[Starting a new thread]
2011/8/26 Ichihara Takashi<[email protected]>:
Hi, Dag,
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/centos-devel-ml-feels-like-devnull
We are all expecting your efforts on the Scientific Linux !
Could you please add our mirror of your repository to your mirror list?
http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/dag/
Best Regards,
Takashi Ichihara
Scientific Linux used to be unknown in Japan but has been gaining much
attention. I find many blogs/web articles about SL written in
Japanese. One of the subjects I see often is "how to edit the repo
file to add SL mirror sites in Japan".
Connie, could you consider adding at least one site from Japan? The
riken site, as requested by Mr. Ichihara is fast and being used by
many users in Japan, as I understand. In relation to this, I also wish
yum-plugin-mirrorlist is installed (and enabled) by default.
Akemi
Hi Akemi,
I haven't read the article, so I cannot comment to everything, but we do
have 4 mirror sites in Japan.
http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors
And they are in the mirrorlist
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/
Troy
What I meant (and probably Mr. Ichihara too) was to have the mirror(s)
added to the baseurl= line in the repo file (sl-release). That's what
SL users in Japan are editing so that they can get to the sites within
Japan. They (users in .jp) also need to manually install the fastest
mirror plugin to take advantage of this. So, my wish to see this
plugin installed by default. :)
Akemi
I have to agree, if you have a mirrorlist then it kind of makes sense to
install yum-fastestmirror by default to make use of it.
CentOS do this by adding yum-fastestmirror (or yum-plugin-fastestmirror
on el6) as a dependency to yum.
Regards,
Phil
PS: I should probably declare that I have a vested interest though as
elrepo users without yum-fastestmirror installed hit our main server
rather than using the mirror system and that's crippling access to other
services hosted on that server (like the main website/wiki and bugs). If
all SL users had yum-fastestmirror installed, that could significantly
reduce the load we experience on our main server. As a large proportion
of elrepo users are SL users, I would very much like to see
yum-fastestmirror installed by default.
