boot.fedoraproject.org (bfo)

[Rudolf Kastl]

2011/8/11 Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime at redhat.com>:
> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 06:46 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
>> On 08/11/2011 05:26 AM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 18:26 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
>>
>> >> Last time i tried an install via bfo it didnt really select mirrors
>> >> close to me. (i think for the install it didnt use a mirrorlist but
>> >> instead a hardcoded repo by default) Is this still the case?
>>
>> > AFAIK, mirrors are choosed by MirrorManager running on
>> > mirrors.fedoraproject.org which is used by yum and it's repos'
>> > configuration. It's quite easy to find out which repos' urls are used
>> > during the installation.
>>
>> Anaconda itself does not disclose the identity of any mirrors it uses,
>> and after the install there is no record of which mirrors were used.
>> Please specify exactly what you use to identify the specific mirrors.
>
> What I meant is that you can get repos' configuration (at least for
> default repos) during installation:
> 1) switch to shell (with Ctlr+F2)
> 2) ls /etc/anaconda.repos.d/
> 3) cat SOME_REPO_CONFIG_FILE
>
> When I use this for 'fedora.repo' file I can see following line:
> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
>
> which reveals the fact that yum (ran during the installation) will use
> MirrorManager running on mirrors.fedoraproject.org (which is the same as
> in an already installed system).
>
>>
>> >                            But I doubt there are any different from urls
>> > used everywhere else.
>>
>> The tail of the path (the filename and last few directory names) is certainly
>> the same, but each mirror is free to place the tree arbitrarily in its
>> filesystem, and many do.
>
> As I mentioned before, the MirrorManager is responsible for returning
> the right mirrorlist already sorted out from the best mirror to the
> worst one (see [1] if you are interested). You can test it by entering
> mirrorlist URL into your web browser.
>
> So I really doubt it's somehow specific for the bfo.
> Vratislav Podzimek

well then it isnt anymore.

kind regards,
Rudolf Kastl

>
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/mirrormanager/wiki
>
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