How do you specify multiple yum repos in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:15:59PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> Assuming that I want to setup my own yum mirror (to have some form of
> guaranteed access), how do I specify the same in
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. I plan to use the up2date client to manage
> my Fedora box

See "Yum Repository Notes", http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html

> 
> Currently, the format seems to be 
> 
> ### an yum style repo 
> ### format:
> ### type  channel-label     url 
> 
> yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
> yum updates-released http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1
> 
> Can I point the channel to multiple urls and how will the urls be
> selected (in order of listing or roundrobin)

I believe it is possible in yum, but haven't tried it.

> Is there a list of existing Fedora Yum repositories or is everybody
> going to hammer fedora.redhat.com as soon as the first update is
> released

For an unofficial list, see "How do I get all the latest stuff for
Fedora using apt/yum?", http://www.xades.com/proj/fedora_repos.html.

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