[Yum-devel] Fastest mirror selection plugin

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 20:41 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 08:50 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 23:47 -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> > > >
> > > > here is my only question and I think everyone will agree this is makes
> > > > sense:
> > > >
> > > > should fastest mirror + mirrorlist caching be in a plugin or merged
> > > > into base functionality?
> > > >
> > > > or should it be split up a bit so that the mirrorlist caching is in base
> > > > and fastest-mirror sorting is still a plugin.
> > > 
> > > I've this feeling that at least the sorting part is better off being a 
> > > pluggable thing. You might be able to use knowledge of local environment 
> > > to create more optimal sort method or something.
> > > 
> > > Also it doesn't work with proxies currently which will prevent it from 
> > > being used in many places :-/
> > > 
> > 
> > why won't it work with proxies?
> > 
> > -sv
> > 
> > 
> 
> It won't work with proxies IF the outbound port is blocked from the
> client to the servers.
> 
> The connection it makes is a direct connection, so if it is blocked, it
> marks all the mirrors as dead.
> 
> It works OK if the client and the proxy can both connect outbound.

ah - so it's not using the proxy defined in the repo at all.

Hmm - we might want to address that.

-sv