Bug 458131

Summary:	RFE: include yum-fastestmirror plugin.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	yum-utils	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	James Antill <james.antill>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2	CC:	borgan
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2008-08-06 16:10:46 UTC

Currently RHEL does not include the yum-fastestmirror plugin. This makes sense as long as yum is only using with RHN; hower once other repositories, like EPEL, are in use, it would be nice to be able to use yum-fastestmirror.

I already filed a similar RFE against EPEL - bug 457978. It would have made more sense to include yum-fastestmirror in EPEL instead of RHEL, however since this plugin is a part of the yum-utils package that is already a part of RHEL, including it in EPEL is problematic per bug 457978 comment #1.

Comment 1 James Antill 2008-08-06 17:34:04 UTC

 Given that there a few plugins we don't distribute in RHEL, I think the correct fix is to have an EPEL yum-utils build that just produces the sub-packages we don't have in RHEL.

 However I think the reason fastestmirror wasn't included by default was: 1) It wasn't as well tested/fixed as it is now. 2) RHEL/RHN doesn't use it. 3) MirrorManager should (hopefully) eventually obviate the need for it.

 #1 isn't true anymore, so I think I'm going to include it for 5.3 (although not force it like CentOS).

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-08-06 17:42:22 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 22:05:36 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0227.html