On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Jason_Meers jason_meers@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Alan Bartlett wrote:
Third'eded ;-)
I would love to see fastestmirror (along with skip-broken) automatically included, however we should probably mention in the release notes that if you share kickstart files between upstream and CentOS (as I do), you will receive a warning box on screen during the automated installing you that the "yum-fastestmirror" is not a recognised package "would you like to skip it and continue, or cancel the installation?", which breaks the un-attended nature of an un-attended install.
I still think it should be included, but mentioned in the release notes.
Jason_Meers
yum-fastestmirror does not work behind some restrictive (oppresive?) firewall configuration. 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).
I would second that mentioning in release notes is needed.
Wojtek