Fedora ftp site?

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 21 19:50:23 UTC 2004


Roland Wolters said:
> Once upon a time William Hooper wrote:
>>>> Have you ran the up2date from FC2test1?
>> >
>> > Yes, sure. I started up2date, and it looked up servers,
>>
>> Which is exactly what you are asking for.
>>
>> > which were all
>> > somewhere in the USA and very slow - I switched it manually to some
>> > high-up-to-date servers in Germany, and everything works fine and
>> fast.
>>
>> You can specify your own mirror list.
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg01346.html
>>
> :) I know that I can do - but I ask for an automatism - something which
> must
> not be done by the user himself.
> Do you understand what I mean?

I don't understand what up2date isn't doing that you want it to.  It seems
to me that it is doing exactly what you are asking.  By default it gets a
list of mirror servers and picks one.  Alternatively, you can specify your
own list of mirrors.  Isn't this exactly what you described:

>>>>> I can't understand why Fedora don't add a feature to change the
>>>>> mirrors automatically by chance or manual

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William Hooper





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