[Yum-devel] Fastest mirror selection plugin

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Nov 17 13:04:52 UTC 2005


> Next thing I have in mind wrt this is to add persistance - calculate the 
> mirrors once and store them someplace and only recalculate every now and 
> then, a simple approach would be "if the mirrorlist is older than a day or 
> week" or something. Another thing I thought about is recalculate when 
> network mask changes: desktops and servers typically don't much move 
> around but a laptop can move around a lot and affect the optimal mirror 
> selection.
> 

Look at the changes just made to cache repomd.xml.

-sv





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