The *new* yum - gracefully changing mirrors

[Satish Balay]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Kevin Old wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> In FC 3 I like the *new* yum that automatically selects a mirror, very
> nice.  There's only one problem with it.  In the few updates I've done
> over the past few days, I always seem to get some mirror that is
> extremely slow in some country across the globe.

Autodetection of the location (perhaps from time-zone) would be nice -
but for now - you can tell yum a more appropriate mirrorlist from:

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/

I use .us.east subset

Satish