Bug 228641

Summary:	A slow mirror grinds install to a halt
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Greg Martyn <greg.martyn>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8	CC:	triage
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Fixed In Version:	fedora9	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Greg Martyn 2007-02-14 05:03:10 UTC

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Unsure -- one attempt was enough for me

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add the Fedora extras repo as a source
2. Get really slow download speeds (5k/s, when I normally get 1,300k/s here at
school)
3. Wait. And wait. Unable to cancel. When switching from vt2 back to X11, the
installer doesn't even repaint until the package finishes downloading.
  
Actual results:
Excruciatingly long install

Expected results:
Better automatic selection of mirrors -- my connection is MUCH faster than the
speeds I was getting
Or an Extras DVD
Or just the ability to cancel the download and restart the package selection
process without the remote repository.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2007-02-22 17:20:07 UTC

Jeremy - Can we make use of the fastest-mirror plugin here?

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-02-22 17:29:46 UTC

Not really; but we probably should point at the mirrorlist url instead of just
download.fedora

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:13:44 UTC

Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6,
please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly
encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to
refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs
for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL

If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days
from now, it will be closed 'WONTFIX'. If you can reporduce this bug in
the latest Fedora version, please change to the respective version. If
you are unable to do this, please add a comment to this bug requesting
the change.

Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
these issues to this point.

The process we are following is outlined here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp

We will be following the process here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this
doesn't happen again.

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Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2008-06-13 17:25:14 UTC

In Fedora 9, we use the mirrorlists by default which, coupled with
MirrorManager, should help make things reasonable