Sorry for the late reply, I thought you were still on vacation, so I took vacation :) (And I'll be off all next week, so I won't be replying to anything next week.) seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 17:16, Troy Dawson wrote: > >>Howdy, >>While I think getting the 'groups' working is more important, I have a couple >>of idea's / suggestions . >> > > > > well I did some thinking and some talking, and some more thinking and > here is all I've got. Conditional groups would be at best hard, at worst > a quagmire of crap. > > > I talked with someone at red hat about the comps file and about the > future of that file. It seems like he kinda hates conditional groups > too. > that being said I think I'll probably do something that allows the > following: > > 1. groups w/i groups > 2. packages w/i groups (duh) > 3. simple parsing. > > Sounds good > >>Multiple configuration files and/or the ability to give a command line >>argument telling yum where to look for it's rpm's. >>Why? > > > I think it would probably be best/easier to do the following: yum > --config-file="/path/to/config file" > > then we don't have to have as much hatefulness in the cli parsing :) > That would be great, and should work for us. > >>Have it be a little more robust server-wise. So that if there are multiple >>servers, and one of them doesn't happen to be available, it just ignores that >>server and uses the other in the list. >>Why? >>Because it would be nice to have mirrored servers, and have them both in the >>config file. If one of the servers goes down, then the other one just get's >>all of the traffic. > > > I thought maybe something like this: > > [serverid] > name=my cool server > baseurl=url://mydefault/path/url > gpgcheck=0 > mirror1=url://mirror1/path/url > mirror2=url://mirror2/path/url > > etc etc - up to lets say 10 mirrors I'd guess - to be reasonable. > > problems with this: > > how do we tell if a url is really down? > I know how to tell if its bad, but down? > we need to keep from having it hang when figuring out what url to use. > > any ideas on that? > > -sv I'll reply to this on some of the other reply's. Thanks Troy
