Re: jpackage.org offline

In my tests on CentOS 5, when I have only mirrorlist and jpackage.org
is down, it breaks yum. When I add baseurl, you can still see the
timeout/no route to host but it falls back to the working mirror and
yum can proceed. Now that jpackage.org is back I haven't actually
verified it uses it again but I would be surprised if it didn't.

I agree that always using the official mirror list makes sense when
it's available but having a fallback that doesn't involve manually
tweaking your yum commandline or configuration would be nice (well, I
have it deployed now but having it on by default could probably help
other people next time it happens).

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Will Tatam <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/01/12 18:49, Adrien Kunysz wrote:
>> Can you please consider the jpackage-release patch I posted earlier:
>> https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2011-December/014796.html
>> This should avoid yum breakage for all jpackage users next time
>> jpackage.org goes down.
>>
> Is that what happens when you use baseurl and mirrorlist ? I though yum
> expected use of either one or the other.
> I keep the comment of the base url, in case people are behind a proxy
> and so want to pin their downloads to our primary mirror rather than
> using the full list of mirrors
>
> Please note that you should always be using dotsrc or the mirrorlist so
> that an adding or removing of mirrors does not effect your systems.
> jpackage.netmindz.net is currently disabled due to yum sending
> unfriendly headers when requesting the repodata which is DOSing the
> backend webservers rather than being delivered from the content delivery
> servers
>
> --
> Will Tatam
>
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