[Yum-devel] mirrorlist not working on our own repository

[Thomas Goirand]

James Antill wrote:
>  The above is in the old mirrorlist format and not in the metalink file
> format, why have you called it metalink?
>  Yum looks for the string "/metalink" and if present assumes the
> mirrorlist is in metalink format (this is for compatibility reasons, and
> can't really be changed).
>  Just change the name if the above to "mirrorlist" and it'll be fine (or
> use the metalink format, if you want).

Thanks a lot, this indeed works.

Now, one more question. Even if there's one of our mirrors on the same
subnet, on the same data center, yum uses that mirror on the other side
of earth. What's the way that yum uses to guess who's the fastest? How
come yum always picks-up our very slow and far Malaysian mirror, which
is ftp://601.apt-proxy.gplhost.com ?

Thomas

P?S: I got another question about release schedule of yum for my Debian
packaging of yum, but I'm posting it on another thread.