[WBEL-users] alternative mirrors for my purpose?

Christian Reeves creeves@kua.net
Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:35:17 -0500


The mirror that was posted early on
(http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/whiteboxlinux.org) is a great for
updating an already 'in-production' machine but the bandwidth is pretty slow
for my situation. I'm curious if there's other mirrors anyone has heard of
that would be better suited for the situation below.

My situation: When I build servers I don't install ANYTHING at all (eg. I
uncheck everything during the GIUs install process) and built the server
from scripts utlizing yum depending on the type of machine it will be
(mailhub, DNS, hosting, database server...etc...) So for my new server
builds, the initial update process is a beast with a slow update server.
Granted I update the cache file as part of my scripts and place it in
/var/yum/cache before each build begins but the actual d/l and install of
the packages can take many many hours from this mirror. Needless to say I
think it unfair to hog this generous person's bandwidth (if in fact is is a
limited pipe - which it seems to be from my end). So are there any other
mirrors that can oblige my new server builds?

Thanks for the feedback and interesting reading!
Christian