On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so i think someone has to make this clear, one way or the other. > (although i like the use of "repository" for a single URL, sadly, > it does clash with the idea of yum.conf being able to refer to > multiple "servers", but i think you're stuck with that.) No, it's worse than this. yum.conf can refer to multiple servers, each with multiple URL's (or "repositories"). I think in general the idea is that the fallback repositories under a single baseurl should be mirrors of each other, but I don't think yum controls for or checks to be sure that they are. That's why I think that the term server should be dropped altogether -- at one time a [server] had a single URL, but now it has fallbacks, making it clear that it isn't a server but rather a label for a set of repositories one hopes are maintained to be consistent. rgb > > rday > > p.s. i did warn you that i was pedantic. > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
