Fedora ftp site?

[Roland Wolters]

Once upon a time William Hooper wrote:
>>>> I can't understand why Fedora don't add a feature to change the
>>>> mirrors automatically by chance or manual - the standards are to get the
>>>> packages from the main Server, that cannot be the best way.
>>>
>>> Have you ran the up2date from FC2test1?
> >
> > Yes, sure. I started up2date, and it looked up servers,
>
> Which is exactly what you are asking for.
>
> > which were all
> > somewhere in the USA and very slow - I switched it manually to some
> > high-up-to-date servers in Germany, and everything works fine and fast.
>
> You can specify your own mirror list.
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg01346.html
>
:) I know that I can do - but I ask for an automatism - something which must 
not be done by the user himself.
Do you understand what I mean?

> > I can't see why they are using the main server for any up2date function:
> > I would only use mirror server, and the mainserver just to give the
> > packets to
> > other mirrors.
>
> Having the mirror list on the server allows you to add and remove mirror
> servers as needed.  It makes much more sense then trying to get everyone
> to update a local file (which is basically what the problem is now).

Hm, not sure if you mean what I think - do you agree with me?

Roland