slow mirror workaround?

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-04-23 04:43 (GMT-0500) Kamil Paral composed:

>> Trying to yum upgrade 19 is stuck on a mirror with no useful throughput. What
>> kind of workaround for this is available? Nothing jumps at me in the yum man
>> page. How do I specify to use a particular mirror know to work?
>
> If the speed is below some threshold, yum should blacklist the mirror and use a different one

Yum doesn't bother to show URL of inept mirror in use. How do I figure out 
which to blacklist?

next time. If you don't have the patience, try hitting Ctrl+C during the 
download. Ideally this should switch to a different mirror (but I'm not sure 
if this functionality wasn't removed).

Not happening.

> Of course, you can also edit /etc/yum/*.repo and hardcode some fast mirror near you:
> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/

 From looking at these repo files, it's non-obvious how to deviate from the 
standard configuration's use of variables.

> But that doesn't guard you against outdated mirrors, and doesn't provide fallback if your chosen mirror is down.
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