package updater optimization proposal
Tim Lauridsen
tla-ml at rasmil.dk
Wed Nov 1 20:30:39 UTC 2006
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
>> Dnia środa, 1 listopada 2006 20:21, Gianluca Cecchi napisał:
>> (...)
>>> In fc6 it seems Ctrl+C is trapped, so it seems better in this way.
>>> In graphical package updater instead, you have no way to say to it for
>>> example "hey, I got a slooooow mirror; can you change it, please? Also
>>> randomly, I don't want to choose a specific one..."
>>
>> There's a 'fastestmirror' plugin (available on yum homepage) which
>> determines mirrors speeds automatically.
>
> If you are going this route, yum install yum-utils (Fedora Extras).
>
> Rahul
>
the yum-utils package dont contain the plugins anymore, the plugins is
split in separate packages:
yum-allowdowngrade.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6 extras
yum-changelog.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6
extras
yum-downloadonly.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6 extras
yum-fastestmirror.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6
extras
yum-fedorakmod.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6
extras
yum-kernel-module.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6
extras
yum-priorities.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6
extras
yum-protectbase.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6
extras
yum-skip-broken.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6
extras
yum-tsflags.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6
extras
yum-versionlock.noarch 1.0.1-1.fc6
extras
Just use : (as root)
yum install yum-fastestmirror
To install the fastestmirror plugin.
Tim
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