fedora.redhat.com nightmare updating!

[Mike Fedyk]

Sean Estabrooks wrote:

>On Fri, July 2, 2004 10:03 pm, François Patte said:
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>>What is the problem with fedora.redhat.com server? : many times,
>>downloading headers or packages hang for hours and, for me, yum  is
>>unable to update a system in less time than 3 or 4 days!!!
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>>I tried to update systems from France, I try to update systems from India
>>now, it is always the same: this server blocks updating for hours.
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>>I use adsl connections 1024Kb/s. I tried several different hours.
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>Hi François,
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>The main server is often slow, are you able to download quickly from
>anywhere?  It sounds like you're already trying different Fedora mirrors
>and finding them slow as well.  You can see the complete list of mirrors
>here:
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>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
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>You should be able to find a mirror that is quicker for you.  Of course,
>it takes some time for the files available on the fedora servers to appear
>on each mirror before you can download from them.
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Mirror selection should be part of the install process, or even chosen 
at random.

There is little reason to have every fedora install hitting the redhat 
servers by default, except to gage the uptake of the distribution!