Re: Display all washed out

[Kam Leo <kam leo gmail com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Beartooth<beartooth comcast net> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:42:54 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
>
>>
>> Another note: Don't just settle for a random mirror. Try out the mirrors
>> listed in the Fedora Public list. Find one that reliably connects. Put
>> your selection in fedora.repo and fedora-update.repo in
>> /etc/yum.repos.d/  (disable the mirrorslist, enable and insert the
>> mirror's url to the baseurl line) or create your own
>> reliable-mirror.repo file..
>
>        Hmm... I'll try that -- but it seems strange. Wasn't the whole
> point of making yum choose mirrors to spread the load??

Yes. Unfortunately, not all mirrors are equal. It would be great if
yum maintained a metric for connection quality to compliment the
fastest mirror plugin. That is why I prefer smart package manager. The
capability of sorting and prioritizing multiple repositories by speed
and connection quality is built into that application.


> Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User