On 26/08/11 17:55, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Troy Dawson<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> On 08/26/2011 11:22 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>>
>>> [Starting a new thread]
>>>
>>> 2011/8/26 Ichihara Takashi<[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Dag,
>>>> http://dag.wieers.com/blog/centos-devel-ml-feels-like-devnull
>>>> We are all expecting your efforts on the Scientific Linux !
>>>> Could you please add our mirror of your repository to your mirror list?
>>>> http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/dag/
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Takashi Ichihara
>>>
>>> Scientific Linux used to be unknown in Japan but has been gaining much
>>> attention. I find many blogs/web articles about SL written in
>>> Japanese. One of the subjects I see often is "how to edit the repo
>>> file to add SL mirror sites in Japan".
>>>
>>> Connie, could you consider adding at least one site from Japan? The
>>> riken site, as requested by Mr. Ichihara is fast and being used by
>>> many users in Japan, as I understand. In relation to this, I also wish
>>> yum-plugin-mirrorlist is installed (and enabled) by default.
>>>
>>> Akemi
>>
>> Hi Akemi,
>> I haven't read the article, so I cannot comment to everything, but we do
>> have 4 mirror sites in Japan.
>> http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors
>>
>> And they are in the mirrorlist
>>
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/
>>
>> Troy
>
> What I meant (and probably Mr. Ichihara too) was to have the mirror(s)
> added to the baseurl= line in the repo file (sl-release). That's what
> SL users in Japan are editing so that they can get to the sites within
> Japan. They (users in .jp) also need to manually install the fastest
> mirror plugin to take advantage of this. So, my wish to see this
> plugin installed by default. :)
>
> Akemi
>

I have to agree, if you have a mirrorlist then it kind of makes sense to 
install yum-fastestmirror by default to make use of it.

CentOS do this by adding yum-fastestmirror (or yum-plugin-fastestmirror 
on el6) as a dependency to yum.

Regards,

Phil

PS: I should probably declare that I have a vested interest though as 
elrepo users without yum-fastestmirror installed hit our main server 
rather than using the mirror system and that's crippling access to other 
services hosted on that server (like the main website/wiki and bugs). If 
all SL users had yum-fastestmirror installed, that could significantly 
reduce the load we experience on our main server. As a large proportion 
of elrepo users are SL users, I would very much like to see 
yum-fastestmirror installed by default.