Re: A quick look at the yum mirrorlists

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On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 16:53 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:20 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> > 
> >   How many are using ppc ? I didn't had much space until a few hours ago
> > to add it, but I'm still pondering the effectiveness of the use of the
> > disk space. Apparently I'm not the only one, 
> 
> I use Fedora on PPC - but I'm the only one (outside of fedora user
> lists) that I personally know of.
> 
> Most ppc people I know use YellowDog or gentoo.
> I suppose things like xterm not currently working in ppc doesn't help
> the Fedora cause on that platform, which will be shrinking now that
> Apple has committed to Intel.
> 
> Still though - if a mirror doesn't have ppc, it shouldn't be part of a
> mirror list used by the ppc platform.

That would require per-platform mirror lists, which isn't currently
done.

Not too difficult to do, though. Create a new version of fedora-release
with the modified mirrorlist URLs and then make the existing mirrorlist
URLs return a single repo containing only the new version of
fedora-release.

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Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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