Single entry mirrorlists in FC6?

[Mike McGrath]

On 31 Oct 2006 13:37:30 +0100, Ingemar Nilsson <init at pdc.kth.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed FC6 last friday, and I noticed a problem with Yum. Almost every
> time I tried to use yum to either install new packages or update existing
> packages, it complains that ftp://falkor.skane.se/... is busy, trying next
> mirror, and exits.
>
> I looked at the mirrorlist entry in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo,
> and downloaded the mirrorlist in my web browser. The mirror list only
> contained *one* mirror (I'm in Sweden). In FC5 and previous versions, the
> mirror list used was
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
>
> which contains a lot of mirrors.
>
> Is it really good that I only get Swedish mirrors, as there is only one? Of
> course, I could point it to the US mirrorlist manually, but that would be a
> hack that does not solve the real problem.
>
> I'm considering filing a bugzilla entry for this issue. Any comments?
>


What is it you're suggesting should happen?  Be specific.

             -Mike