yum repositories slow?

Mon Mar 8 05:02:26 UTC 2004

Swamper wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:16:47PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>Am So, den 07.03.2004 schrieb Swamper um 21:59:
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>>>On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:26:04PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>>>Am So, den 07.03.2004 schrieb Swamper um 20:12:
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>>>>>It took almost 24hrs to do the initial update on my laptop
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>>>>And you really make use of mirror server(s) as source?
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>>>I was afraid to make any changes... just typed yum -y update and
>>>headed to the beach.
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>>Well, then no wonder ... The fact was discussed so many time now. See
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>>http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
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>>I some time ago tried to explain what to do and even why.
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>Thank you; your site is just what I need at this point.  I just
>installed test 1 this weekend and have only been reading this
>list since yesterday.  Getting any distribution to work on my
>desktop hasn't been a problem but my laptop has always been
>quite finicky.  Fedora is the first one that looks like it might
>actually work.  It's a Sony VAIO GRX560, btw.
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Try mirror sides, you can find them on http://fedora.redhat.com

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