slow mirror workaround?

Frank beacon at videotron.ca
Sun Dec 8 02:08:40 UTC 2013


On 07/12/13 08:45 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-04-23 04:43 (GMT-0500) Kamil Paral composed:
>
>>> Trying to yum upgrade 19 is stuck on a mirror with no useful
>>> throughput. What
>>> kind of workaround for this is available? Nothing jumps at me in the
>>> yum man
>>> page. How do I specify to use a particular mirror know to work?
>>
>> If the speed is below some threshold, yum should blacklist the mirror
>> and use a different one
>
> Yum doesn't bother to show URL of inept mirror in use. How do I figure
> out which to blacklist?
>
> next time. If you don't have the patience, try hitting Ctrl+C during the
> download. Ideally this should switch to a different mirror (but I'm not
> sure if this functionality wasn't removed).
>
> Not happening.
>
>> Of course, you can also edit /etc/yum/*.repo and hardcode some fast
>> mirror near you:
>> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
>
>  From looking at these repo files, it's non-obvious how to deviate from
> the standard configuration's use of variables.
>
>> But that doesn't guard you against outdated mirrors, and doesn't
>> provide fallback if your chosen mirror is down.


    I am having a really tough time trying to update my Fedora 19 
today...it's failing on every single mirror.

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