[Yum-devel] how long to hold on to a mirrorlist

Tim Lauridsen tla at rasmil.dk
Mon Jul 2 06:06:11 UTC 2007


seth vidal wrote:
> Hi folks,
>  I was working on some changes to download and save the mirrorlists to a
> file in each repo dir so we can draw from there instead of always having
> to hit the network, like with -C or with a user-call. Anwyay - I was
> wondering what people thought we should use as enough time to avoid
> hitting the mirror? Is the metadata_expire time a reasonable default to
> use for the mirrorlist, too or should we define another config option
> for mirrorlist expiration?
>
> welcome to hear preferences.
> -sv
>
>   
24 hours, the content of the list should not change very often.
I think a dedicated mirrorlist_expire is a good idea.

Tim



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