> I haven't been following the failover thing at all. So with failover, > there can be multiple baseurl entries per serverid? yes. essentially the failover code buys us multiple server reliability and mirror support. > This is where I've been going, obviously, because Seth pointed me in > that direction, and I had no strong objections to it. (BTW-Seth, was > there a reason to switch to urllib2, instead of urllib, other than just > that it is newer? It seems unnecessarily complicated and new-fangled > for what yum has to do, while urllib is dead simple. But I'm a Python > newbie, so I'm not allowed to hold strong opinions.) > urlgrabber was entirely written by michael stenner - he did it originally b/c of a request for keep-alive support and he thought it'd be fun to play with. he went with urllib2 b/c it is more flexible than urllib and it is the future. -sv
