[Yum-devel] [Yum] Feedback request: Possible patch for fastestmirror plugin

[Seth Vidal]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a wish, but I'm not sure if it was already in Yum.
> 
> In my office network, HTTP is always allowed, but FTP was blocked.
> 
> When I use fastestmirror plugin, there will be ftp mirror included, and it cause long delay when
> determining the fastest mirror for this site, because the connection is blocked, and have to wait until it
> timeout.
> 
> I would like to have a setting in Yum that I can say
> 
> exclude_protocol="ftp"
> 
> or
> 
> include_protocol="http"
> 
> where fastestmirror plugin will only try to determine the fastest mirror based on the protocol that was
> served.
> 
> I'm not a programmer, so I cannot contribute my code. But I really wish someone out there can implement the
> feature.

mirrormanager and yum will sort mirrors so that http is first.

so you can kinda already get what you want.

and this plugin


http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/prune-by-regex.py

will let you prune out mirrors by a regex

-sv