Re: Fedora Core 3

[George J Karabin <gkarabin@xxxxxxxxx>]

In my experience, some mirrors pick up debug rpms and less used 
architectures, some don't, and some are a day or so behind the main 
sites. Rotating the complete mirror list (that exists today) will cause 
people to see things like the second of two sequential yum commands 
issued from the same machine failing because the second dns lookup 
might return an older archive, or an archive that doesn't have certain 
deps that the previous one did, etc.

So if someone does this, maybe there ought to be clear standards about 
what mirrors must do to go into the rotating list.

On Jul 5, 2004, at 10:53 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 02:34, Elliot Lee wrote:
>
> > > A utility that asks you to choose a mirror for the updates.
>
> well that or a smart rotating DNS alias to which a lot of mirrors
> "subscribe", say updates.mirror.fedora.redhat.com
>
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