[Novalug] Fedora 8 Repository

[Ken Kauffman]

Thanks for the heads up on this package (yum-fastestmirror), it has helped
with the speed of downloads significantly.

Again - thanks!

Ken

On 1/1/08, Matt Thompson <matthew.thompson at nrl.navy.mil> 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.
>
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