On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:18 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > > where a repository oscilates between today's view and some obsolete view. > > > > Perhaps I should file a yum RFE to make yum not only select mirrors for access > > speed, but also for the recentness of their metadata file? > > what we had considered was using the fastest mirror plugin to sort the > list of mirrors. Then store that sorted list in the repo cache > directory. Then redownload the list and re-sort/store it every 8 hours > or so, same as how we're storing the repomd.xml data, now. Well, here's a quick-n-dirty proof of concept version of fastestmirror with persistent cache of mirror response times: http://laiskiainen.org/yum/plugins/fastestmirror/fastestmirror-persistent.py Certainly makes a big difference, a no-op 'yum update' on my system is around 11s when all mirrors are timed on each run, with the above version the consecutive runs come down to ~5s. - Panu - -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list