FYI: Workaround for today's FC5 baseurl/mirrorlist problems

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 25 16:04:52 UTC 2006


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Joshua Andrews wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Jef.
>>>
>>> I must say that this is a really big piece of shit! Maybe a simple yum 
>>> update could have solved this problem for thousands of people!!!!!! Maybe?
>> It wont. Since you wont be able to get that update without the mirror 
>> list working.
> 
> If yum had a better mirrorlist selection algorithm, this issue would not
> have appeared ;)

Mirror list selection is a server side infrastructure issue. Not 
something yum needs to manage on its own. The mirror list cgi files that 
were posted here are something FC6 has already implemented by default 
now. So you already get what you want at this point.

> And if yum had a counter part to "apt-get update" the network load would
> be less, which would make server overloads and DOS/QOS attacks less
> successful.

yum update = apt-get update

Rahul




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