On 05/05/2013 11:12 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Is there any rationale for NOT making yum-fastestmirror the default?? > > Without yum-fastestmirror any yum install is excuciatingly slow, think > 256 Kbps or slower. > However if I enable yum-fastestmirror I download from the local mirror > in .AR at 5 Mbps... > > So, again, given that benefits that yum-fastestmirror providers, why > isn't it the default behaviour? (we can have 'yum-slowyum' to revert > back to the traditional behaviour ;-) > > FC > -- >
It seems to me that fastest mirror measures only the ping time for a mirror, not the actual download rate. Sometimes, it works in my favor and sometimes not. It's on by default in CentOS 6 and off in Fedora. In general, I don't see a whole lot of difference when I run updates on each. My preference is to have the updates download themselves via yum-updatesd or yum-cron, so it's really irrelevant except when I'm manually installing packages. -- -- Steve -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
