[Yum] mirrorlist server selection

[James Antill]

Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plcomputers.net> writes:

> James Antill wrote:
>>  Now, in theory, it'd be possible to change _getMetalink() to have a
>> list of URLs and try each in turn until we get "something that
>> parses". But it's not super easy, and it'd need a lot of testing
>> (... patches accepted :).
>>
> What about caching last list of mirrors and automatically iterating
> through that list if mirrorlist does not respond?

 As far as I can see both metalink and mirrorlist work that way
already (they only replace the old file if the new file can be
downloaded and parsed).

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