On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 22:46, Jack Neely wrote: > Folks, > > I want failover. > > I make yum smart. > > This patch makes baseurl in the config file into a list. Uses spaces as > delimiters. Also adds a "failovermethod" to each server section to > select the failover method. If you leave it out it does round > robin...which is not really round robin right now...but yeah... Your > config files will work without making any changes...this just adds a few > extras options to them. > > Attached are two things....a diff against cvs of the 4_2 branch and the > failover module I added. The basic idea is that we have a base failover > method class that gets inherited by other classes so folks can define > their own failover methods....sence I've seen lots of ideas suggested. > > Mainly I need to touch up the failover classes but it works as a proof > of concept. Note that clientStuff has its own grab() function now. > > go-go-gadget asbestos I like the idea a lot. And the implementation doesn't scare me too much at all. I looked throught the patch and there is atleast a couple of places in config.py where I'd want to make it act more like the other options but in general it looks pretty good.. thanks, Jack. -sv
