Thetargos
15th November 2007, 01:02 AM
Well, not exactly, more like Yum's annoyance. I'm trying to install Fedora 8 onto my main workstation, the installation is going flawlessly... provided it advances... The only problem so far with the installation process is the extra repositories configured. Since Fedora 6 introduction of the extended repositories installation capability, I've always tried to make use of it. In Zod I had a few problems, mainly as the feature was "hidden", in Moonshine, a bug in Anaconda confused the installer into actually performing a whole YUM installation (a la HTTP) off a mirror than use the local media for those packages available in the disc; now with 8, everything seems to go fine, except for one little-tiny thing: I tend to forget that YUM mirrors may be slow, and unfortunately apparently I got beaten by slow mirror bug, the installation process is proceding as expected, and packages from the disc install almost instantly, however the extra packages I wanted from the repos are taking forever to download, and not for a lack of bandwidth, not on my end, at least. Now if only Anaconda's yum configuration had a kind of repo management to switch to faster repos when encountering slow transfers, that'd be MUCH better... Hehe, seems like I always find a reason to complaint about this feature in Anaconda... :p
