up2date stupidity

"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Feb 2003 10:45:02 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.up2date.current.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[Off topic]

In pondering the design of up2date, I'm struck by a question:

Does anybody *else* think that it was short-sighted that up2date will
consult only a single server?

Never mind back-up servers. I'm thinking that I'ld like to publish a
channel for the EROS stuff and let people subscribe to that without
forcing them to grab all of their RedHat updates from my server as a
side effect.

Conceptually, it shouldn't be hard to modify up2date to associate a
server with each channel individually. Am I missing something painfully
obvious?


shap