> And to make things worse: Some mirrors do not have correct permissions > set for the different directories. > > And most of this is outside my control. > > To make it easier on my customers I wrote a little shell script which > extract the possible mirrors from Yellowdoglinuxs mirror page. > It then proceeds to select the fastest mirror by downloading the > header.info file. > That works well, but doesn't guard against that one of the faster > mirrors has an error in the permissions for the rpm directory. > > What I would like is if yum-arch left a known dummy file (dummy.yum?) > of ex 50K in each directory. Download of this file would guaranty that > the directory is present and accessible. Why not just set the mirrors up that DO have copies as multiple baseurls to any given repository - then just use the failover mechanism? Also this putting a yum-arch dummy file in a dir sounds KLUDGY - if your mirrors are broken and unreliable then you need better mirrors, you don't add in an ugly 'fix' like that to yum-arch AND to yum. -sv
