[Cialug] RedHat's site

[Tom Pohl]

On Mar 23, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Dave Weis wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, David Champion wrote:
>> My biggest gripe about Fedora is the centralized update system. Any 
>> time a big patch comes out, it's impossible to get them downloaded 
>> for a while.
>
> yum in newer versions has automatic mirror locating and will try other 
> mirrors from the list if the one you connected to doesn't have what 
> you need. It works very slick.
>

While this is true, out of the box, it only lists 1 mirror location for 
Fedora (redhat).  I was hesitant to add a google located second or 
third mirror for fear that they were outdated and yum wouldn't be smart 
enough to recognize what was going on.

-Tom