[CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

Mon Aug 24 07:15:43 UTC 2009
Linux Advocate <linuxhousedn at yahoo.com>



> > 
> #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
> > baseurl=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
> > gpgcheck=1
> > gpgkey=ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Oliver
> 
> I have done this;
> 
> -disabled the fastestmirror plugin ( frm the conf file by setting enabled=0 )
> -modified CentOS-Base.repo
> 
> [base-1]
> name=CentOS-5 - Base
> #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os
> baseurl=http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
> exclude=postfix* perl-MIME-Base64 perl-DBI
> priority=1
> enabled=1
> 
> 
> what about the rpmforge repos?


Will this link do?

http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/dag/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/