[CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload
I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically choosing sites for downloading. I have just upgraded to CentOS 5.2. When I look for a mirror, I get many choices from Taiwan. Since I am in Hong Kong this makes sense geographically but not in terms of bandwidth. Although Taiwan is very close, it is almost the slowest connection I can make. Some .jp sites are good but I find .sg or the US is usually best. This morning I tried to update to the new kernel (92.1.6). My system seemed to die during the download. After some investigation, I found that Yum et al is being defaulted to .tw sites. (base, updates, add ons all go to .tw.) I have now been sitting at base primary.xml.gz for over 15 minutes and am only about 50% done. Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual bandwidth and not just geographical closeness? Mel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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>Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual >bandwidth and not just geographical closeness? > >Mel Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Joseph L. Casale <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 9:29 AM: >> Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual >> bandwidth and not just geographical closeness? >> >> Mel > > Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) That addon rocks! Add the delta-addon as well, and you get really fast updates! 8-D smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload
tech wrote:
I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically
choosing sites for downloading.
You can always just disable the yum-fastestmirror plugin if its not
working well for you. In /etc/yum/pluginconf.d there should be a file
called fastestmirror.conf - look in there, and change enabled=1 to
enabled=0. Might be worth running it with verbose=1 for a little while
to work out whats going on. Perhaps also reduce the maxhostfileage value
to have fastestmirror speed check each mirror more often.
There is also always the option of only using mirrors you know work
well. To do that, comment out the mirrorlist= lines from
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and replace them with baseurl=mirror>. You can have multiple mirrors listed there. man yum.conf for
more info on that.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That addon rocks! Add the delta-addon as well, and you get really fast
updates! 8-D
There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting
confused with Fedora here ?
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RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload
Karanbir Singh <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 10:27 AM: > tech wrote: >> I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically >> choosing sites for downloading. > > You can always just disable the yum-fastestmirror plugin if its not > working well for you. In /etc/yum/pluginconf.d there should be a file > called fastestmirror.conf - look in there, and change enabled=1 to > enabled=0. Might be worth running it with verbose=1 for a little while > to work out whats going on. Perhaps also reduce the maxhostfileage value > to have fastestmirror speed check each mirror more often. I wonder if running "yum update yum*" first would help, before doing the full "yum update"? In my case with CentOS v5.2, I saw yum got updated too, and since then yum works blazingly fast for me. You might want to try it anyway. If it works better after the update, then fine, you're all set for better speeds. FWIW, I had slow speeds pre-5.2 as well. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Karanbir Singh <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 10:28 AM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> That addon rocks! Add the delta-addon as well, and you get really fast >> updates! 8-D > > There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting > confused with Fedora here ? Umm... I might. I think it was called something like that at least . Lemme' check. BRB. ... Here; "rpm -qa *delta*" reports I have "deltarpm - 3.3-2.el5.rf.i386" installed on my CentOS5.2-machine. I got the impression this worked with CentOS5 anyway. At least I saw some stats when running yum with my pre-5.2 CentOS flashing by. My understanding was that the repo however had to be compatible with deltarpm for this to work at all. So this doesn't work with CentOS then, correct? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting confused with Fedora here ? So this doesn't work with CentOS then, correct? Thats what I said earlier, we dont support delta rpm in CentOS. - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload
Ok, any particular reason why not? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:54 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting >> confused with Fedora here ? > So this doesn't work with CentOS then, correct? Thats what I said earlier, we dont support delta rpm in CentOS. - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:15 PM, tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically > choosing sites for downloading. > > I have just upgraded to CentOS 5.2. When I look for a mirror, I get many > choices from Taiwan. Since I am in Hong Kong this makes sense geographically > but not in terms of bandwidth. > > Although Taiwan is very close, it is almost the slowest connection I can > make. Some .jp sites are good but I find .sg or the US is usually best. > > This morning I tried to update to the new kernel (92.1.6). My system seemed > to die during the download. After some investigation, I found that Yum et al > is being defaulted to .tw sites. (base, updates, add ons all go to .tw.) I > have now been sitting at base primary.xml.gz for over 15 minutes and am only > about 50% done. > > Is it possible when deciding these default sites to look at actual > bandwidth and not just geographical closeness? Mel: I had this problem, before fastest mirror. The nearest server to me, geographically, probably would not be the fastest for me. Another example is Sourceforge. They set up downloads from Brazil. I'm in Colombia. I change that to a server in the USA. Thank you for fastest mirror! Get fastest mirror fixed and it will work for you! BTW, when I upgraded 2 Desktops, from 5.1 to 5.2, on our 550k connection, it took just over an hour to get approximately 489 MB of Packages Downloaded. (DL speed from the USA was well above 550k, for both downloads). HK is probably connected directly to the USA, via satellite and/or undersea cable and it should be fast for you, downloading from the USA. Lanny ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Sorin Srbu wrote: Ok, any particular reason why not? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting confused with Fedora here ? So this doesn't work with CentOS then, correct? Thats what I said earlier, we dont support delta rpm in CentOS. - KB Far be it from me to put words in the mouths of our distro's developers and maintainers, but I'd bet its because upstream doesn't. My .02 -R PS: upgrade to 5.2 successful here...zero problems and MANY thanks to all of the CentOS team! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Sorin Srbu wrote: > Ok, any particular reason why not? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Karanbir Singh > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:54 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting >>> confused with Fedora here ? >> So this doesn't work with CentOS then, correct? > > Thats what I said earlier, we dont support delta rpm in CentOS. > can you consider not top posting ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Karanbir Singh >Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:34 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload > >Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Ok, any particular reason why not? >> >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >> Of Karanbir Singh >> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:54 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting >>>> confused with Fedora here ? >>> So this doesn't work with CentOS then, correct? >> >> Thats what I said earlier, we dont support delta rpm in CentOS. >> > >can you consider not top posting ? Sorry. I think I fixed that last evening, all posts from me, from then on should be properly quoted and non-topposted. Outlook 2007 doesn't allow too much leeway on this unfortunately... 8-/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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