It seems like every few years I come back to the same issue: when repos in /etc/yum.repos.d/ use a mirrorlist line, I invariably get some weird mirror that’s extremely slow. I’d rather use baseurl= and point it at a fast mirror I found by hand, but I don’t want to wed myself to one mirror that could go down. I start looking at how to generate a local mirrorlist (which can be done), but while investigating the syntax, discover this:
You can specify multiple URLs in the baseurl= statement. (It’s actually in the yum.conf manpage.)
And thus, something like this works great:
baseurl=http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/ http://mirrors.mit.edu/epel/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/ http://mirrors.rit.edu/epel/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/
They warn to not use multiple baseurl= statements; put them all in one and just indent subsequent ones. In older RHEL/CentOS versions, you could specify a failovermethod parameter of either round-robin or priority, but this was apparently not included in dnf.
I should really learn dnf…
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