On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:16, William Hooper wrote: > billg said: > > 1) Is yum's unresponsiveness due to mirror load? If so, why wasn't > > up2date slow? Just dumb luck? Do they not look at the same > > repositories? > > Up2date has code to pick a random mirror. Yum does not. Well, yum takes a bit more work. The onus is on the user to select the list of mirrors to randomize, but from "man yum.conf": failovermethod can be either 'roundrobin' or 'priority'. roundrobin randomly selects a url out of the list of urls to start with and proceeds through each of them as it encounters a failure contacting the host. priority starts from the first baseurl listed and reads through them sequentially. failovermethod defaults to roundrobin if not specified. Example: [os] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base OS baseurl=ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever failovermethod=roundrobin gpgcheck=1 > > > 2) Why offer more than one way update a Fedora system? > > Why not? yum has features up2date doesn't and up2date has features yum > doesn't. Then there's apt-get - with different +/- Phil