[Yum] mirrorlist server selection
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 17 21:14:55 UTC 2010
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> So you have to maintain 2 things in sync instead of just one, and since every
> host behind a cache is likely to choose a different mirror name you end up
> downloading 10 copies of every update - or however many mirrors there are.
a different mirror name? What are you talking about.
You don't keep 2 things in sync - you just keep one - don't use the round
robin at all.
ONLY use the mirrorlists.
since yum is the thing that has to access the repos/pkgs only the
mirrorlist matters.
-sv
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