Single entry mirrorlists in FC6?

[James Wilkinson]

Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> I looked at the mirrorlist entry in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo,
> and downloaded the mirrorlist in my web browser. The mirror list only
> contained *one* mirror (I'm in Sweden). In FC5 and previous versions, the
> mirror list used was
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
> which contains a lot of mirrors.
>
> Is it really good that I only get Swedish mirrors, as there is only one? Of
> course, I could point it to the US mirrorlist manually, but that would be a
> hack that does not solve the real problem.
>
> I'm considering filing a bugzilla entry for this issue. Any comments?


Mike McGrath wrote:

> What is it you're suggesting should happen?  Be specific.

I'm not Ingemar, but I'd suggest regional mirror lists unless there are
at least two (or three) mirrors per country, or unless there are
particular country-specific reasons to stay in-country.

For example, I understand international links from Australia and New
Zealand are expensive, and most Australian and New Zealand users have
international bandwidth limits. So there *is* a good reason for them to
stay in-country if possible.

On the other hand, there's little difference for users between a server
in one European country and one in the next. So it would be nice if
European users got a Europe-wide list by default.

James.

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