yum mirrors for fedora

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:38 PM -0600 6/19/07, kwhiskerz wrote:
>I have noticed that I always get University of Sherbrooke in Québec and the
>linux users group in Manitoba as my yum mirrors.
>
>They are soooo lame! I have tried to break them off to get a better mirror,
>and what happens? I get one file, and then yum switches back to those other
>two!
>
>I presume that they are being chosen because I live in Canada, but there are
>other mirrors, many of them, that are much faster.
>
>How can I get yum to stop choosing lame mirros because of an apparent
>proximity to my home and start using the fast mirrors?
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For FC6 and FC5 (not F7 yet -- I haven't installed F7), my stablemirror yum
plugin uses the same mirror each time, as long as it is offered; makes
Ctl-C work; and allows slow mirrors to be rejected temporarily or
permanently without manual editing of its list of mirrors.
<http://georgeanelson.com/stablemirror.htm>
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