Re: mirrors that don't work

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At 1:49 PM -0400 7/18/06, Sean wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:42:13 -0400
>Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I've reported two such issues to "Fedora Infrastructure" "update system".
>> One was accepted, the other was pushed onto "website".  I haven't seen any
>> activity on either bug in the past couple of months, so don't get your
>> hopes up.
>
>Recent chatter on the devel-list(1) suggests that the next test release of
>FC6 will include an update to yum which improves the mirror list
>functionality.
>
>Instead of downloading a static mirror list, your IP address is used to
>look up a country code.  If a match is found, servers from your country
>will be returned instead of the global mirror list.
>
>Either way, the list of servers returned will have been automatically checked
>to ensure that they are up to date.  The check isn't perfect (it only tests
>the metadata on each server) but it should improve the situation a lot.

Looks like a good approach.

The metadata check really is good enough for narmal use, as the usual
problem is stuck mirrors.  Were you wanting them to do some sort of reverse
rsync?


>Cheers,
>Sean
>
>(1) http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-July/msg00409.html

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