On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 20:34 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > >I'm sure there's other stuff people would like to see. What sorts > > >of things? > > > > > A utility that asks you to choose a mirror for the updates. > > > > The second you type any yum command for the first time, you hit the red > > hat servers and that's slow as fsck. > > At some point yum will get the mirror-list support that is already in > up2date... > It's already there in cvs-HEAD of yum. It even parses the $ARCH variable that adrian put in. (it reads it as $basearch instead of $arch, in yum.conf variable-speak) however, it's kinda superfluous the new config parsing has include=url://to/some/file parsing that acts just like a heredoc. so you can have an entire repository section defined that way. -sv
