"Baseurl" download source for now?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 7 13:57:40 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 17:53 +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> I've discovered data inconsistencies in a (nearest) mirror of Fedora.
> 
> For me, 
> "https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch" 
> return a mirror at "mirror.yandex.ru".
> 
> Assuming it is some temporary issues, I prefer to switch (for a while) 
> to the "baseurl" in the repo config file, ie. to 
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ 
> .
> But any attempt to address this link returns me the same mirror at 
> yandex.ru.
> 
> IOW, it seems that "baseurl" is the same behavior as "mirrorlist".
> 
> How can I download something from the "primary", "baseurl" Fedora repos 
> (not from mirrors)?
> 

download.fedoraproject.org hits a redirector which sends you to the
nearest mirror from mirrormanager.

-sv




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