How to change mirrors during yum install if possible

DJockey · 07-29-2009, 12:10 AM

Got a question hopefully somebody can answer. Well I'm doing a yum install on gcc-c++ and it seems that one of the packages is downloading at 2.2 kb/s. I've reset my router and modem plenty of times and I've notice other packages will run at 200 or above. But this one seems to be very irritating.

I was wondering is there a way to switch mirrors to see if this will speed up the process?

Thank you

mek · 07-29-2009, 04:28 PM

In the repository configuration file you should modify this:

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo

Code:

[updates]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

you should comment the mirrorlist and uncomment the baseurl.

if you want to pick another mirror you should check what mirror is available in the mirrorlist URL, changing $releasever for 10/11 and $basearch for i386 (or your architecture)

DJockey · 07-29-2009, 04:59 PM

Awesome, thanks for your help.