Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 01/14/2011 03:04 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> I not use it for huge downloads, but rather occasionally when our national >> mirrors are incomplete or when I'm in window when local mirrors still isn't >> complete and need some interesting package from main repo. Or only see, >> which packages are new, as it seem as lately all packages to update repo go >> strictly from testing repo. >> >> Otherwise I use local Fedora mirrors, of course, they gave faster access. >> >> Franta Hanzlik > > For small downloads, you should be able to use http: to download files > for you, though there is sometimes a re-direction when you point your > web browser directly to the http://download.fedoraproject.org pages > (note the system name, AFAIK, the download.fedora.redhat.com use is > deprecated and may cease to work at some point in the future). Check > the baseurl paths in your repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ for the > correct paths to use.
OK. But there are some advantages when using FTP service (e.g. miscellaneous comparation with other local/remote directories and interactive download selection - near all TUI/GUI FTP clients can it) for which I prefer them over http/rsync. Thus I will hope to some Fedora FTP servers will be available also in future. Franta Hanzlik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
