What happened to yum? Nought. mirrorlist is go!

[David Timms]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Jeffrey Ross wrote:
>>> I see the same behavior.
>>>
>>> Yum's Achilles Heel - if the main server is down, there's no way to
>>> get a mirror.
>>>
>>> Actually, you can specify baseurl in your repo file, but I imagine the
>>> server will be up again soon...
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> PS - in the time it took to write this, the error message has
>>> 'evolved'....
>> yeah so I see, its evolved nicely... I guess a few more minutes it'll
>> probably change again.
>>
>> Jeff
> 
> The infrastructure team is working on the resolution.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-December/msg00082.html 
In any case, I consider it useful to insert into the yum repo configs an 
entry for at least my nearest decent mirror, as a baseurl. Along with 
this set the failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.conf so that your 
baseurl will always be tried before getting the mirrorlist and it's urls.

Especially good when your own ISP mirrors the fedora site, and doesn't 
count downloads from their mirror against your account, or when 
something untoward happens with the fedora mirror site/script.

Anyway, mirrorlist seems good now, at least for {from .au}
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-6&arch=i386

DaveT.