Fastest mirror

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 22:45:42 UTC 2012


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> I just came from Ireland to Italy,
> and was surprised that when I ran "sudo yum update"
> with the fastest_mirror plugin,
> it still used the same repo in Ireland for fedora-update,
> though I can't believe it would be the fastest in Italy.

The fastestmirror plugin caches the fastest mirror data so it doesn't
have to check on every use of yum, which would defeat the purpose.
;-)

Run `yum clean plugins` to clear it and it will perform another test
on your next yum run.

-T.C.


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