On 8 December 2013 03:45, Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2013-04-23 04:43 (GMT-0500) Kamil Paral composed:
Trying to yum upgrade 19 is stuck on a mirror with no useful throughput.
>> What
>> kind of workaround for this is available? Nothing jumps at me in the yum
>> man
>> page. How do I specify to use a particular mirror know to work?
>>
>
> If the speed is below some threshold, yum should blacklist the mirror and
> use a different one
>
Yum doesn't bother to show URL of inept mirror in use. How do I figure out
which to blacklist?
I know this is an old thread.
Try setting the env var URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1, e.g. 'URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 yum
install foo', it gives a huge amount of extra debug output; the point is it
shows the mirror yum picked to download a package.
next time. If you don't have the patience, try hitting Ctrl+C
during the
download. Ideally this should switch to a different mirror (but I'm not
sure if this functionality wasn't removed).
Not happening.
Of course, you can also edit /etc/yum/*.repo and hardcode some fast
> mirror near you:
>
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
>
From looking at these repo files, it's non-obvious how to deviate from the
standard configuration's use of variables.
But that doesn't guard you against outdated mirrors, and doesn't provide
> fallback if your chosen mirror is down.
>
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