Wojciech Pilorz wrote:
yum-fastestmirror does not work behind some restrictive (oppresive?) firewall configuration.
if yum itself is able to make http/ftp connects to a remote host, I dont see why yum-fastestmirror might have an issue, can you provide some specifics about what broke and how ?
Also, at least some time ago, fastestmirror was very address-space hungry, and caused yum to die if ulimit on address-space or stack-spaceset set to anything below 1Gig or more (well, that was on fedora with a very long list of mirrors, and fastestmirror created a large number of thread, perhaps one for a mirror).
Well, this isnt Fedora. So if you have an issue on CentOS with something similar its worth looking at.
I would second that mentioning in release notes is needed.
Thats on the wiki, so feel free to add it there :D Although I'd imagine there is already something there about yum and the fact that it now depends on yum-fastestmirror.
- KB