Fedora Bounties (seeking ideas)

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:32 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:02 -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> > The "fastestmirror" yum plugin is your friend - I really think it should
> > be part of the default install!
> > yum install yum-fastestmirror
> 
> It's not my friend. It seems to always pick the worst mirrors possible.
> It shouldn't take 5 minutes to download 100k. In particular,
> mirror.clarkson.edu always seems to top the list, and I can only seem to
> get about 300bps sustained from them...
> 
> Mirrors need to be ranked by actual download rate, not whatever it is
> yum-fastestmirror is doing. (It appears to be simply timing how long it
> takes to connect()...)

Then do so! :)

You can make your own mirrorlist for your own use if you want.

just put the baseurl of the sites you like in a file somewhere on your
system

then refer to the file in the repo section in the .repo file like this:

[myrepo]
name=some repo
mirrorlist=file:///path/to/my/mirrorlist

that's it!
-sv