Can anyone think of a good reason why we should not make fastestmirror a
direct dep for yum ? Its something that is well worth having and in
90%[1] of the cases, it will improve the user experience.


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[1] Number pulled out of thin air - I have no facts or numbers to back
that up.



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On 6/12/08, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:
>
> Can anyone think of a good reason why we should not make fastestmirror a
> direct dep for yum ? Its something that is well worth having and in 90%[1]
> of the cases, it will improve the user experience.
>
> - KB
>
> [1] Number pulled out of thin air - I have no facts or numbers to back that
> up.

nope
would save me once less configuration step on every new install

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Karanbir Singh wrote:


Can anyone think of a good reason why we should not make fastestmirror a
direct dep for yum ? Its something that is well worth having and in
90%[1] of the cases, it will improve the user experience.


- KB

[1] Number pulled out of thin air - I have no facts or numbers to back
that up.


I have no problem with it, since if you have only one mirror listed with
"baseurl=" it works fine too.


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On 12/06/2008, Michael Simpson <mikie.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
nope
would save me once less configuration step on every new install
Seconded.

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Michael Simpson wrote:

On 6/12/08, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:

Can anyone think of a good reason why we should not make fastestmirror a
direct dep for yum ? Its something that is well worth having and in 90%[1]
of the cases, it will improve the user experience.

- KB

[1] Number pulled out of thin air - I have no facts or numbers to back that
up.


nope
would save me once less configuration step on every new install


Likewise for yum-downloadonly. I nearly always run updates with the
--downloadonly option unattended, then baby-sit the actual update which
happens quickly with everything already cached.


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Alan Bartlett wrote:
On 12/06/2008, *Michael Simpson* <mikie.simpson@gmail.com
<mailto:mikie.simpson@gmail.com>> wrote:


nope
would save me once less configuration step on every new install


Seconded.

Alan.

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

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On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:55 +0100, Michael Simpson wrote:
> would save me once less [sic] configuration step on every new install

++1

Phil


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On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:


would save me once less configuration step on every new install


Likewise for yum-downloadonly.


I think that it's worth asking the more general question: if the
plugins don't modify at all (like downloadonly) or only make better
(like fastestmirror) the behaviour of yum, shouldn't they be in by
default ?


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on 6-12-2008 6:10 AM Jason_Meers spake the following:

Alan Bartlett wrote:
On 12/06/2008, *Michael Simpson*
<mikie.simpson@gmail.com
<mailto:mikie.simpson@gmail.com>> wrote:


nope
would save me once less configuration step on every new install


Seconded.

Alan.

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
But if it was automatically included, you could leave it out of your kickstart
scripts and no more messages. A plus for you!



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Bogdan Costescu wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:


would save me once less configuration step on every new install


Likewise for yum-downloadonly.


I think that it's worth asking the more general question: if the plugins
don't modify at all (like downloadonly) or only make better (like
fastestmirror) the behaviour of yum, shouldn't they be in by default ?


Absolutely, its a discussion worth having.

However, for the sake of 5.2, i think we'll just go with the
fastestmirror added in.


Maybe we can work out a list of the others that are recommended by the
users, and decide on those for the future ?


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