On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Jason_Meers <jason_meers at 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