[Novalug] Fedora 8 Repository

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 08:38 -0500, Matt Thompson wrote:
> 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.

I've had good luck with the vt.edu repos too.

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