From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040513 Firefox/0.8.0+ Description of problem: I know Gentoo has something like this, it finds the fastest mirror avaliable and automatically sets that as the server for updates. Sometimes I will be going to update and hit a few mirrors that are slow as heck, it would be nice to be able to manually choose them or have an option to find the fastest mirror. Gentoo might just be pinging the mirrors and seeing which responds the fastest (I think) but they might measure it some other way. Basically that would work very well and might make the mirrors happier. Just a suggestion, if you need more information let me know, thanks for listening. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.3.18-2 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
if you add a file in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date/mirrors with the name being the name of the channel, and the contents being a list of mirrors, it will use those mirrors instead of picking them at random. The format is the same as the mirror lists fetched from fedora.redhat.com. an example can be found at: http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2
I think the reporter is requesting a more automated way of choosing your mirrors, which is valid. I'm pretty computer and unix savvy, and it took me a month or two to figure out that one could help up2date find better mirrors than the default. But the procedure is a little arcane: wading through the filesystem to find the up2date config. file location, and finding/downloading the right mirror-list to put in that file. What would be a great first approximation would be something at the first use of up2date that asks you if you think a mirror-list from a particular region would fit your circumstances better than the default. And the user could choose from a list of regions. Which in almost every situation would be true.