How to specify alternate up2date site? (Was: Alternate up2date sites

[Gregory Woodbury]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:33:41AM -0600, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> BFD wrote:
> >M.Hockings wrote:
> >>BFD wrote:
> >>
> >>>I've been getting my updates for up2date from 
> >>>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/
> >>>but am finding lately that this site is extremely slow and frequently 
> >>>stalls.
> >>>
> >>>Could some suggest a good alternate site from the Western US?
> >>>
> >>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> 
> How do I tell up2date to use an mirror site? I've been poking around my 
> system and haven't figured out how yet.

Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources  to point at a mirror instead of the
main redhat repository.  Which mirror to use?  Look at all of them and
select one that is logically closer to you that isn't likely to be as
overloaded as the main redhat site.

You can also generally put one of the mirrors in /etc/yum.conf instead
of the redhat site.

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