In a Fedora system, I can access only ftp and not http. When I try to install a package with yum, it usually tries to download from http mirrors. How do I force it to download from a ftp mirror(listed here http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/17/i386/) ?
How do I force yum to download from a specific mirror?
fedora;yum
If I recall correctly, YUM should retry from different mirrors until one works, as mine would keep trying at school since the http ones were all blocked, though this could help: http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/