At 12:37 PM -0500 8/1/07, Les Mikesell wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: ... > > Yum defaults to spreading the load >> over all the mirrors by randomly choosing a mirror each time, ... > > but it can be >> configured to use a baseurl list instead, which allows you to use the same >> mirror each time, with fallbacks when that mirror is not available. > >Please translate that into the commands that people served by the same >proxy should use to update their machines, keeping in mind that they may >not know about each other or have anything else in common. If that's >not possible, translate it into what one user has to do to update 2 >machines, keeping in mind that yum was supposed to make things easier. ... In each /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo file, comment out the mirrorlist line and uncomment the baseurl line. If you want to be polite to the Fedora infrastructure, replace the URL there with one or more you like from the mirrorlist. Look at how the Livna repo files do it. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
