yum-fastestmirror is not the default, it should be

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun May 5 19:23:55 UTC 2013


On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 12:12 -0400, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Is there any rationale for NOT making yum-fastestmirror the default??

Because it doesn't work? The heuristic it uses is far too simple-minded.
I've often had to hand-edit the mirror list to stop it trying to
download from nearby mirrors which have low latency but also very low
bandwidth.

poc



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