Re: mirrorlist server selection

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:

>
> So you have to maintain 2 things in sync instead of just one, and since every 
> host behind a cache is likely to choose a different mirror name you end up 
> downloading 10 copies of every update - or however many mirrors there are.

a different mirror name? What are you talking about.

You don't keep 2 things in sync - you just keep one - don't use the round 
robin at all.

ONLY use the mirrorlists.

since yum is the thing that has to access the repos/pkgs only the 
mirrorlist matters.


-sv