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

[James Antill]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:57 +0800, 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 ?
> 
> 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.

 With the mirrorlist format, yum starts at the top of the list and works
it's way down if it hits a failure.

 With the metalink format, yum sorts by priority and then does some
filtering for http vs. ftp and then works down the list.

 You can try yum-plugin-fastestmirror, although I'd personally recommend
just putting the mirrors in the "correct" order server side.

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