Finding the "best" mirror

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Nov 19 07:41:02 UTC 2004


> Haven't looked at this yet, but how about selecting more than one mirror
> (e.g. the 5 best), creating a local yum mirror file, and pointing yum's
> configuration to that file:///path/to/that/mirrorlist? I really like the
> fact that yum tries another server when one doesn't seem to respond, which
> wouldn't be the case anymore with a single baseurl configured.

What about combining this:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/284631
with netselect and generating a mirrorlist of the best mirrors every
night or something?

-sv





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