[Yum] Request for comment -- repository-level redirects

[Eric S. Raymond]

Ryan Tomayko <rtomayko at gmail.com>:
> IIRC, the urlgrabber code has support for HTTP redirects so some of 
> this may be possible to implement on the server-side with just a little 
> mod_rewrite magic..
> 
> RewriteRule ^/fedora/3/extras/(.*) http://otherrepo.org/$1 [L,R]
> 
> I also remember reading a simple method for setting up a round-robin 
> load-balancing scheme using mod_rewrite.

Yes, I didn't think this would be very difficult.
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