On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
Of course, if our mirror gets bogged down from overuse, you may want to point to a different mirror. Fortunately, there are a few others right in Canada now...
I just tried it out last night, and it worked great. Reading a bit in the manual, though, you can put a list of mirror sites in, and they will be tried sequentially:
ie
baseurl=http://site1/path http://site2/path
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO-10.html#s...
So, it might be best to leave the original mirror site in as a backup, or pick another server.
Another curiousity... The CDs I had on hand were for Fedora Core Test 3, so I installed it anyway. Edited yum.conf to point to the MUUG site, but the core 1 base and updates. "yum update", and I had myself a Core 1 box at the end of it! Not sure if I'm brave enough to try the same starting at RH 9. :)
Sean