[NCLUG] CentOS Yum Repositories?

[Rich Young]

Sean-
   Thanks tons for both the advice and the mirror.  I'll be pointing at
you as soon as I get around to it.

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I'm Rich Young, and I approved this message.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nclug-bounces at nclug.org 
> [mailto:nclug-bounces at nclug.org] On Behalf Of Sean Reifschneider
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 7:36 PM
> To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] CentOS Yum Repositories?
> 
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:56:38AM -0600, Rich Young wrote:
> >Anyone have any suggestions for reliable yum repositories for CentOS?
> >I'm getting errors because yum can't find whatever repo came 
> built-in 
> >to the installation.
> 
> Fedora mirrors have been pretty spotty, not sure about 
> CentOS.  In Fedora there have been corrupt upstream 
> repositories, which means they spread to other mirrors, but 
> the bigger problem seems to be that sometimes it just uses a 
> mirror that has horrible speeds, like several seconds to 
> download a few dozen kilobytes of information, on lines that 
> should be able to grab
> 1+megabytes per second.  10+ seconds to get a header file means that 
> 1+it's
> going to absolutely suck to get the RPM.  ;-/
> 
> Most of the CentOS servers we deploy we deploy for customers 
> at our server facility, and we point them at 
> mirrors.tummy.com for obvious reasons.  It's reeeeal snappy.
> 
> You're welcome to use mirrors.tummy.com and see if it helps.  
> Use it in place of the regular mirror host name for baseurl 
> line, and it should be golden.  That works real well with 
> CentOS, sometimes Fedora has issues because of the repository 
> problems I mentioned before.
> 
> We let mirrors use all bandwidth that we aren't using for 
> other things, usually this is 2 to 6mbps, so mirrors can be 
> pretty snappy.  We're on a lot of the mirror lists, but just 
> don't get hit that hard.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean
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