[Yum-devel] Selecting mirrors on the "freshness" of their repomd, not just their speed

[Karanbir Singh]

Willem Riede wrote:
> In  
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-November/msg00610.html  
> Seth told me that submitting code was the only way to help make the 
> subject  happen, so I created a variant of the fastestmirror plugin that 
> also checks  the age of repomd.xml on the site.
> 
> A non-up-to-date mirror, however fast, is not going to get the most 
> recent  updates to me, so it is of less use than a slightly slower, but 
> up-to-date  mirror.
> 
> A full version is attached, a diff (probably mangled by my mail client)  
> follows in-line. It works for me - YMMV.
> 
> Comments? Willem Riede.

isnt this the sort of role, better performed at the server end ? The 
machine handing out the mirrorlist should _only_ be giving out the urls' 
to mirrors that are 'in sync'

a cron job on the server that runs every 15 minutes should be able to 
update the files handed out at the mirrorlist=<url>. surely that is 
going to be more effective at checking mirrror freshness.

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