Bug 752943 - RFE: display / switch mirror used for network installs
Summary: RFE: display / switch mirror used for network installs
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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low
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-10 20:05 UTC by Matt Domsch
Modified: 2013-05-07 21:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-05-06 23:51:48 UTC
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Description Matt Domsch 2011-11-10 20:05:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
Installing F16 uses MirrorManager to choose a mirror.  All well and good.  I would like anaconda to display, maybe during package download, the URL to the package it is downloading.  Might also be useful to have a "change to another mirror" button that would force stopping using the current mirror and move to the next.

Reasoning: I'm installing F16 using PXE from home, packages from some random mirror.  It's going quite slowly.  netstat has been removed from the Alt-F2 shell, so I can't easily see what server it's downloading from.  And there is no way to get it to move on to using a different server.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F16 gold
Comment 1 Brian Lane 2013-05-06 23:51:48 UTC 
I don't think there's any good way to get yum to do this while installing. We are using fastest-mirror now, so hopefully things will just work. If not, pass the url of a known fast source.
Comment 2 Matt Domsch 2013-05-07 21:58:13 UTC 
bcl - using fastestmirror?  Ugh!  Why?
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