Up2date replacement

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, seth vidal wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 19:02 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:18 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>>>>
>>>> where a repository oscilates between today's view and some obsolete view.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps I should file a yum RFE to make yum not only select mirrors for access
>>>> speed, but also for the recentness of their metadata file?
>>>
>>> what we had considered was using the fastest mirror plugin to sort the
>>> list of mirrors. Then store that sorted list in the repo cache
>>> directory. Then redownload the list and re-sort/store it every 8 hours
>>> or so, same as how we're storing the repomd.xml data, now.
>>
>> Well, here's a quick-n-dirty proof of concept version of fastestmirror
>> with persistent cache of mirror response times:
>> http://laiskiainen.org/yum/plugins/fastestmirror/fastestmirror-persistent.py
>>
>> Certainly makes a big difference, a no-op 'yum update' on my system is
>> around 11s when all mirrors are timed on each run, with the above
>> version the consecutive runs come down to ~5s.
>
> is this including the repomd.xml caching?

No, that's just plain 2.4.0.

 	- Panu -