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

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Thomas Goirand wrote:

> 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 ?

it's not - it's probably just sorting the list generically and 6 comes 
first.

If you want to sort the mirrors by access time look at the fastestmirror 
plugin.

-sv