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

[seth vidal]

> > 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.
> 
> While in theory, you have a point, there are two practical problems with what  
> you say:
> 
> 1. I don't see RedHat volunteering to have that process going on their server;

Have you asked? 

-sv