yum-fastestmirror is not the default, it should be

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 12:49 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> 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.
> 

You can see what mirror it is using netstat or ss, then
edit /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf if using the plugin.

poc