Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[William Hooper]

John Summerfied wrote:
> William Hooper wrote:
>
>
>>
>> It's not obvious that yum exists, either.  I would guess that the
>> inexperienced user would be hitting the flashing red !.
>
> Likely.
> I then tried up2date commandline (acually, I know about that). I don't
> recall now my objections to that.

Up2date uses the same mirror list.

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> A default selection based on time zone would work for many people. I
> select "Australia/Perth" and that self-same selection should give me
> WAIX-connected mirrors plus Optus and Telstra to choose from. Or for yum
> to roll around.

You just got done complaining that the Australian mirrors aren't in the
mirror list.

-- 
William Hooper