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Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:27:26 +0100
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Why not just install fastestmirror and you will always get updates from
the fastest mirror site?

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 10:30 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 09:35 AM, Connie Sieh wrote:
> Thank you for the prompt response.
> 
> Presumably by "de-RPMing" (extracting the full contents) of a repo 
> specification RPM, one could modify the RPM, along with a new name,
> such 
> that the RPM would now point to a different repository (say, the 
> Princeton one), assuming that all of the files internal to the RPM
> are 
> ASCII text (e.g., XML, etc.) that can be edited with an ordinary text 
> editor, or that can be downloaded from the site one wishes to 
> repositorize (e.g., an authentication key file). 

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