Adrian Reber <adrian@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 01:54:41PM +0100, Adrian Reber wrote: >> > Now, in theory, it'd be possible to change _getMetalink() to have a >> > list of URLs and try each in turn until we get "something that >> > parses". But it's not super easy, and it'd need a lot of testing >> > (... patches accepted :). >> >> I am not sure I formulated my problem correctly, so I have written a >> patch that does what I want. Maybe this helps to describe my problem >> better. To test it I have created a DNS entry (mirrors.lisas.de) which >> points to four IPs: > > So... Any chance to get something like the patch I posted into yum? I don't think we'd want it in yum, for a couple of reasons: . yum doesn't call getaddrinfo() or gethostby*() currently, and I'm not dying to change that. . Doing it there means it'll only affect mirrorlists, not metalink/repomd/etc. ... which is fine for you, but I'd rather not have more complicated code in _just_ the mirrorlist path. . A better change comes to mind to have "mirrorlist" be a UrlList config. and not just a Url config. option. So you can have: [blah] mirrorlist = http://mirror1.example.com/blah http://mirror2.example.com/blah ...dito. metalink. This is a bit more complicated, but the code should be shared ... and seems "better". . For the mirrorlist esp. we could just make failure much nicer (eg. just use the current mirrorlist on failure). . Someone is bound to complain that yum is doing the wrong thing because the mirrorlist they've pointed to happens to hit 16 IPs and the network is down somewhere. . It just seems wrong to do it at this layer, and I worry about SSL cert. validation etc. Optionally doing it in urlgrabber seems less "icky", but still has some of the above problems. -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.28 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
