why doesn't yum stay on the continent

[Paul Howarth]

Tim wrote:
> James Wilkinson:
>>>> The most prosaic one is that it isn't trivial for yum to work out
>>>> which continent a user is on.
> 
> Tim:
>>> Surely it is.  Just read the information stating what timezone the
>>> computer is located in.
> 
> Paul Howarth:
>> Which would make yum think that London and Cape Town were close to each 
>> other...
> 
> That rather depends on what system of identifying the timezone you use.
> The stupid CST, EST, etc., names are useless.  But if you set your
> timezone as something like Australia/Adelaide, etc., the continent has
> been identified.  In a case like mine, it would make sense for the
> update process to try an Australian mirror first.  It might even be good
> if I could specify a preferred server that will be tried first, before
> picking a random mirror.

One option you have is to get rid of the mirrorlist altogether and use 
"baseurl" with multiple urls, and have "failovermethod=priority". yum 
will then try the servers listed in baseurl, in the order that you 
specified them.

Paul.