[Yum-devel] default yum failover method change request

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:30 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:


> What I'd like to propose instead is that yum's default failover setting
> of roundrobin be changed to priority.  This would allow any yum tool
> using Fedora's Mirror Manager to return mirror lists work without
> adjusting default config.  This would mean that consumers of static
> non-ordered lists would need to override config, however I posit that
> in the F8+ world this is not the most common case.  Certainly not for
> Fedora.  I'm unaware of what method CentOS uses to generate mirror
> lists though, however they would have a good amount of lead time before
> this setting would be seen in RHEL6 (RHEL to the best of my knowledge
> doesn't use mirror lists, it uses the rhn plugin to determine what repo
> urls to access so this wouldn't necessarily effect RHEL).

It doesn't sound horrible. I'm not sure I agree with you that setting
the failover option to a repo is terribly onerous but I understand what
you're saying. I'm fairly ambivalent about this. On the one hand we can
change the default just in fedora and avoid blowing anyone else up. OTOH
changing it in yum is trivial and this doesn't really change behavior.

Anyone else care?

-sv