Some thoughts on the yum tutorial

[Yoshihiro Totaka]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:58 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
>>Stuart Ellis wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>3. I would have started by discussing the entries in /etc/yum.repos.d/ ,
>>>>perhaps with model entries for the 3 standard repositories.
>>>>That would enable people to get started as quickly as possible.
>>>
>>>Yum in FC4 has been set up so it now isn't necessary to directly work
>>>with the contents of the configuration files at all for normal usage.
>>>It works out of the box, using the Fedora repositories, and you can add
>>>and remove third-party repositories by copying .repo files (or having an
>>>application do it).
>>
>>I always replace the repositories given in the default entries
>>by local repositories (I mean in Ireland, in my case).
>>I don't know if that is standard practice.
> 
> 
> It's not, since the default entries are to mirror lists and not single
> sites.  Your package requests go to a random mirror entry, meaning
> there's a basic and large-scale load balancing that happens without you
> having to do anything.  What happens otherwise if your local repo is
> down?
> 

There is a country mirror list and simply adding country code to default 
mirror list works. I am living in Japan and using default mirror list is 
unbearably slow. So I am using following following mirror lists.
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever.jp
Mentioning of these country mirror list would be nice.
(I am not saying everyone should use it.)

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