On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:05, Axel Thimm wrote: > Hi apters and yummers, > > do apt-get/yum support http redirects? If not, wouldn't it be worth > while to add support for it? > > Other than the classical scenarios where you want redirects, one can > think of alternative organization of repositories, separating > meta-data from rpms, splitting repos across hosts, load-balancing etc. short answer: yes Long answer: you can always test this in yum by using urlgrabber.py in the yum tarball from the command line: python urlgrabber.py http://myserver.org/myfiles localfilename I'm also not 100% sure how well the keep-alive will deal with the redirects. Meaning - it might not keep-alive the redirected connections. :) -sv
