[ANN] stablemirror - a yum plugin for stable, up-to-date mirrors

[Ambrogio]

Il giorno dom, 11/06/2006 alle 23.53 -0400, Tony Nelson ha scritto:
> Stablemirrors makes yum use its mirrors in ths same order each time, though
> different for each machine.  This alone fixes most of the issues.
> Stablemirrors makes sure to check the date of a mirror before using it.
> The first mirror must be at least as up-to-date as the last time run; and
> any subsequent mirrors used on failures must be at the same date as the
> first mirror.  This is done by downloading the tiny repomd.xml file, so
> little bandwidth is wasted.
I'm starting using it.

I think is a good think manner.
Another kind of sorting rules can be the speed of the mirror.
I don't know Python, so I can't help you but I will read source.

Bye
 Ambrogio