[Yum-devel] Patch for fastestmirror.py

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Sun Nov 27 12:40:37 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:05 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: 
> We were testing fastestmirror.py (version 0.2) for use with CentOS-4.2
> and found that it only worked for http mirrors and that the test was
> hardwired for port 80.
> 
> We wanted to also make it work on http (other than 80 if the mirror was
> set that way), ftp (21 or other port if set), and pick a file:///path/
> as fastest if it exists instead of downloading.
> 
> The attached patch (on top of version 0.2) did those things for us in
> our testing.
> 
> (patch written by Karanbir Singh)
> 
We modified the patch slightly to also include https.  Here is the new
one.

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Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
CentOS Developer
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