Up2date replacement

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 14:47 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > what we had considered was using the fastest mirror plugin to sort the
> > list of mirrors. Then store that sorted list in the repo cache
> > directory. Then redownload the list and re-sort/store it every 8 hours
> > or so, same as how we're storing the repomd.xml data, now.
> 
> I for one am not sure that "fastest mirror" is the one I want to use.
> 
> There are financial benefits to many people in Australia using their 
> local cache peering arrangements.

Then you need to specify your own mirrorlist or look to see if the
australia-only mirror list is up.


> We need to be given the chance to choose a mirror, and to know where 
> that mirror is: the name www.au.fedoracore.org doesn't tell me whether 
> it's in QLD, WA, or even off-shore in TAS.

You can choose a mirror, type it in the baseurl and remove the
mirrorlist.

-sv