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milomak

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Are there local repos for places like rpmfusion, atrpms and livna?
 
Mirror has the official repos. Not the side ones though they are a huge part of fedora.
 
running f18 fedup.

the slow speeds of the fedora repos (the atrpms and livna type) is amazingly slow. on debian and arch i have international repos. run at 350kB/s+. fedora these i talk about are about 100kB/s. and this after running fastestmirror plugin.

would probably be faster to download the dvd, install and setup again.

mainly this post is a rant against rpmfusion
 
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milomak said:
rwould probably be faster to download the dvd, install and setup again.
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You can run fedup against a local copy of the F18 iso - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp

ISO File

In order to use an ISO file, it needs to exist locally on the filesystem of the system to be upgraded. The documentation is written as if that file is /home/user/fedora-18.iso but you will need to replace all instances of that path with the actual path of the ISO. Updates will be pulled in if you have network access on the machine to be upgraded.

Download the Fedora 18 ISO appropriate for the arch that you are running
For the sake of example, we will assume that the ISO exists at /home/user/fedora-18.iso but it can be anwhere in the filesystem as long as you alter the path below to reflect the actual location of the ISO.
Start the upgrade prep by executing the following command
sudo fedup-cli --iso /home/user/fedora-18.iso --debuglog=fedupdebug.log
Once the preparations have completed, check the fedupdebug.log file if any errors show up in the output from fedup-cli
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yes i read the same thing. hence why i actually posted what i did. i already have mirror.ac.za as a repo for the fedora stuff (see how it is not listed in my op)

which again was the main point of this thread.

as i stated, on my debian and arch installs my line speed even for international repos is as fast as downloading from a local site. this is not the case for livna, rpmfusion and atrpms for me.

hence why i asked if there were local repos.

edit - so the files it needs for the main f18 part are already in mirror.ac.za so will run at full speed.
 
milomak said:
edit - so the files it needs for the main f18 part are already in mirror.ac.za so will run at full speed.
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I think we're talking past each other. I was referring to doing an update from a downloaded copy of the .iso on the system to be updated not a local repo mirror like mirror.ac.za.

I tested this last weekend and it was about 75% faster than using internet repos (excluding time to download the .iso).
 
when i initially ran fedup, the downloads from mirror.ac.za where at 400kB/s.
it was the downloads from the other repos that got me agitated.

so assuming fedup downloads things from mirror.ac.za at the same speed as i would with a download manager (downloading an iso - dvd or cd?), what happens that causes fedup to be that much slower?
edit - so i am asking you to convince me to download the iso (cd or dvd?)
 
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milomak said:
it was the downloads from the other repos that got me agitated.
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The time taken for this will obviously stay the same :(

.. so i am asking you to convince me to download the iso (cd or dvd?)
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The F18 install isos are over 4GB each which I had downloaded in any event but they certainly speeded up things when using fedup as described (I agree with you that performing fedup via the net is time-consuming - forget about a 1 or 2 beer job and plan on having a full blown braai while it's running :D)

But ... fedup has worked beautifully on all the systems I have tested and beats doing a fresh install hands down.
 
so if you use rpmfusion, livna or atrpms; you have no local reops?
 
nice one. those are relevant fedora repos so should be mirrored imo
 
MickZA said:
I've sent a query to SAIX including this thread, lets see what they say.
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I have been in contact with SAIX & the rpmfusion admins - SAIX are currently looking at requirements for a local mirror...
 
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