[Yum] A proxy friendly Yum?

[Menno Smits]

Sanjay Arora wrote:

> Would it be possible to have yum have a feature which when enabled would
> get yum to try the servers in sequential order every time a server
> failed...i.e. try to connect to the first, second server & so on for
> every file...or maybe a better way...just so it is more proxy friendly
> and obviates the need to maintain a local mirror.

Yum already does this. The behaviour however is affected by the 
failovermethod option. The default setting is "roundrobin" which 
randomly selects a URLs from the list. Sounds like you want the 
"priority" method which moves through the list sequentially. See the 
yum.conf man page for more details.

Menno