[Novalug] Fedora 8 Repository

[Matt Thompson]

The heavens stretched forth and Cliff Palmer decreed the following on or 
about 12/31/2007 5:54 PM:
> 
> Ken Kauffman wrote:
>> So I decided to give F8 a spin using an external (bootable) eSATA 
>> drive on my primary machine. 
>>
>> I've been doing some searches and how on earth to you get a repository 
>> installed that doesn't take forever to download packages?
>>
>> F8 is the first time I've experienced this type of crawling for a 
>> repository download. 
>>
>> I'm using YUM for the management currently.

One thing you should install is the yum-fastestmirror package.  This is 
a small package that does timing tests against the Fedora mirror list. 
Of course, this isn't perfect as the mirror with the lowest ping or 
whatever it uses, doesn't mean it's the fastest with downloading.

In recent times, I've found mirror.cogentco.com to be the best.  If 
fastestmirror doesn't seem to work well, try adding it as a baseurl in 
the fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo files.

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