"Muayyad AlSadi" <alsadi@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > hi, > I have a silly suggestion > it's to allow both baseurl and mirrorlist to be used together > and in this case yum should download repomd.xml from the baseurl > (which is a very small file) and use the mirrorlist for other files If you get the latest yum from Fedora 10 (3.2.20-5) you can use a metalink which will allow you to do what you want, but without breaking the concept of mirrors (you can also supply a mirrlist which will be used on older yum releases). > this way we avoid having messages like this > > Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have: > (01:43:55 AM) alsadi: Current : Wed Nov 5 10:31:08 2008 > (01:43:55 AM) alsadi: Downloaded: Tue Nov 4 11:12:35 2008 > > what do you think ? If you have out of sync. mirrors frequently enough that this is a problem, you should also turn on --unique-md-filenames. -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
