{"id":592,"date":"2007-07-24T23:15:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/24\/yums-mirror-select"},"modified":"2007-07-24T23:15:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T04:15:33","slug":"yums-mirror-select","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/24\/yums-mirror-select","title":{"rendered":"YUM&#8217;s mirror-select"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I appreciate YUM&#8217;s mirror-select tool, in comparison to what APT offers me. OptusNet&#8217;s mirror is down, so its a case of editing <tt>\/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/tt> and doing a <tt>%s\/au.archive\/archive\/g<\/tt>. With YUM, it&#8217;d have just found another mirror &#8211; now that seems like (good) redundancy to me.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/yum\" rel=\"tag\">yum<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fedora\" rel=\"tag\">fedora<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/apt\" rel=\"tag\">apt<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20YUM%27s%20mirror-select&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F07%2F24%2Fyums-mirror-select&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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