Mirror Manager and the way you get EPEL

[Michael Stahnke]

This might be odd, but to me, I get frustrated every time I type
download.fedoraproject.org into my browser and get taken to a mirror
that doesn't have EPEL.  I realize not every mirror can carry EPEL,
but if I want to get EPEL packages (specifically epel-release) I have
to log into a server that already has it, and cat
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and see where I can find the information.

The only other way is to browse to the fedoraproject wiki, and search
on EPEL (because it's not listed on the front pages).  I will talk to
the web team and see if I can get this rectified.

I guess I would like something like download.fedoraproject.org/epel
and it would take to me random epel mirror.

Is that possible?  Am I the only one who ever thinks this?  You can
tell me if I am nuts.

stahnma

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Michael Stahnke  wrote:
> This might be odd, but to me, I get frustrated every time I type
> download.fedoraproject.org into my browser and get taken to a mirror
> that doesn't have EPEL.

I think you want his instead:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/EPEL/5/

[Michael Stahnke]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Gianluca Sforna  wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Michael Stahnke  wrote:
> > This might be odd, but to me, I get frustrated every time I type
> > download.fedoraproject.org into my browser and get taken to a mirror
> > that doesn't have EPEL.
>
> I think you want his instead:
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/EPEL/5/

I still think that is more complicated than
download.fedoraproject.org, but thank you for your help.

[Robert Scheck]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> I guess I would like something like download.fedoraproject.org/epel
> and it would take to me random epel mirror.

What at http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/ is not working for you?
Just type a few characters more to get /pub/epel/ into the URL and - voila,
it works :)

Greetings,
  Robert

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:23:47AM +0100, Robert Scheck wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> > I guess I would like something like download.fedoraproject.org/epel
> > and it would take to me random epel mirror.
>
> What at http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/ is not working for you?
> Just type a few characters more to get /pub/epel/ into the URL and - voila,
> it works :)

Correct.  The way to think about it is, for the content on the master
mirrors, there is a corresponding URL
(e.g. http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel) which takes you to a
mirror which is up-to-date with that content.  It's not really a
random mirror, it follows the same rules as that of any other Fedora
content mirror (up-to-date; then ordered by preferred netblock, same country,
same continent, global).

Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler