yum-fastestmirror is not the default, it should be

[Mike Wright]

05/05/2013 12:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.
>
That's not the only thing simple minded about yum.

One simple improvement would be to tell which mirror it's connecting to. 
  I've been trying to yum update f18 all day and it keeps choosing the 
same damn mirror (no idea which) with a whopping 7.9k data rate.  f27 
will be out before this joke is done.