Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[John Summerfied]

William Hooper wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
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>>William Hooper wrote:
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>>>It's not obvious that yum exists, either.  I would guess that the
>>>inexperienced user would be hitting the flashing red !.
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>>Likely.
>>I then tried up2date commandline (acually, I know about that). I don't
>>recall now my objections to that.
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> Up2date uses the same mirror list.

It was more than that; if that was the problem up2date would win every 
time - I can use a cronjob to keep its local repository current.

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>>A default selection based on time zone would work for many people. I
>>select "Australia/Perth" and that self-same selection should give me
>>WAIX-connected mirrors plus Optus and Telstra to choose from. Or for yum
>>to roll around.
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> You just got done complaining that the Australian mirrors aren't in the
> mirror list.

Isn't it part of the same problem? If I were Jason (the bloke who 
administers PlanetMirror) I'd not want it on the list as it stands now 
because PM only serves Australia.

OTOH, PM does mirror Debian. I presume the sigficant difference is that 
Debian allows even the inexpert to choose by location, such as 
Australia/Perth.

Of course, it could all be a communication problem that I'm reading too 
much into, but were I administrator of PM, I would not want my site 
listed. Or, I'd firewall off PM from the rest of the world and the 
Fedora people wouldn't list me because there'd be too many breakages.





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