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HiFab information, thank you.I sit behind a proxy ...

2008-07-08T16:36:00.000+08:00

Hi

Fab information, thank you.

I sit behind a proxy (I've got it all configured etc) - it counts my host and user internet usage. We are "charged less" for downloads after 2am etc.

Other than using cron/crontab is there a way of setting yum to run at a particular time? For example when I leave to go home I do a yum update to look/check that I want everything updated and then

"run yum update at 2am"

Thank you,
Jeremy

@scott: If the mirrors.fedoraproject.org mirrorlis...

2008-05-04T10:17:00.000+08:00

@scott: If the mirrors.fedoraproject.org mirrorlists being returned to you are sub-optimal, please let the Fedora Infrastructure team know (fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com, or mail me directly). Provide as many details as you can, especially including your IP address. US users shouldn't be given mirrors outside the US (and I presume you're in the US given the specific mirrors you have listed).

Thanks,
Matt Domsch
Fedora Mirror Wrangler, MirrorManager author, and general troublemaker

@MrTomsure, go ahead, just assume its a CC-ByAttri...

2008-05-01T14:22:00.000+08:00

@MrTom

sure, go ahead, just assume its a CC-ByAttribution licensed ..

/me looks around blog template .. now where did that CC icon went too ..

HelloI would like to ask you if I could translate ...

2008-05-01T06:31:00.000+08:00

Hello

I would like to ask you if I could translate this post entry into French on my blog (http://mrtomlinux.org). Of course, I would say it is a translation and I would link to your blog. Thanks

Regards,

MrTom

@scottyeah .. it happened several times with me to...

2008-04-13T10:06:00.000+08:00

@scott

yeah .. it happened several times with me too .. but i set my the timedhost.txt to expire as quick as possible so that everytime i reyum it'll try to scan a different list

yum-fastestmirror really depends on where you are and how the mirrors surrounding you reply to the timedhost scan .. that might be perhaps the main reason its not enabled by default ..

The yum-fastest mirror plugin is highly overrrated...

2008-04-13T10:02:00.000+08:00

The yum-fastest mirror plugin is highly overrrated.

If you use the default mirrorlist url in your .repo files you often end up with slow servers on the other end of the planet.

Or worse, it may find one close, but it's an FTP site with user limits which is ievitly full.

My solution?

Keep the plugin, but limit it to a select number of sites that you know to normally be fast.

For example...

[rawhide]
name=Fedora - Rawhide
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download3.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/
http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/development/i386/os/
http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/
http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/development/i386/os/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/i386/os/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

yum-merge-conf is pretty awesome too

2008-04-02T13:18:00.000+08:00

yum-merge-conf is pretty awesome too

@lowwell yeah .. though I would use yum-\* rather ...

2008-04-01T15:21:00.000+08:00

@low

well yeah .. though I would use yum-\* rather than only yum-* .. because if in the folder you execute the command, there are files which its name starts with yum-, yum-* will take that file's name as the input..

Does yum install yum-* work ?

2008-04-01T15:17:00.000+08:00

Does yum install yum-* work ?