Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. (...) Typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

Have yum change the current mirror

August 13, 2008

Fedora

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There is one feature of yum in Fedora 9 I was not aware of: if, during an installation, you feel unsatisfied with the download rate provided by the current mirror, you can just hit Ctrl-C once, and yum will cancel the current download and try the same file from a different mirror.

(6/7): blabla.fc9.x86_64.rpm   (30%) 23% [========== ] 11 kB/s | 384 kB  01:47 ETA 

 Current download cancelled, interrupt (ctrl-c) again within two seconds to exit.

(6/7): blabla.fc9.x86_64.rpm                                     | 1.6 MB     00:02