Re: mirrorlist server selection
James Antill <[email protected]>
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Ljubomir Ljubojevic <[email protected]> writes: > James Antill wrote: >> Now, in theory, it'd be possible to change _getMetalink() to have a >> list of URLs and try each in turn until we get "something that >> parses". But it's not super easy, and it'd need a lot of testing >> (... patches accepted :). >> > What about caching last list of mirrors and automatically iterating > through that list if mirrorlist does not respond? As far as I can see both metalink and mirrorlist work that way already (they only replace the old file if the new file can be downloaded and parsed). -- James Antill -- [email protected] http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.27 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching