Jeff Spaleta wrote:
Hmm....can someone out in the community prototype this cronjob idea up.Jeff , dont tease me please ... now I want to implement this ;)
The logic of this could easily be extended the extra step so that this
could be implemented outside of fedora.redhat.com at a community
mirrorlist location
for testing. I'm more than willing to reconfig my up2date on one of
my fc2 boxes
to use alternative yum-mirror entries.
One concern I have is the policy contraints around doing a dynamic cronjob on the master server. Technically, this could be done, but I am unsure of the policy surrounding the server setup and whether a dynamic cronjob is even allowed. But there is no reason why someone out in the community couldn't test and implement this cronjob idea and provide an alternative mirror-list location to see if this works.
-jef
I'll give it a shot maybe tomorrow (I can leave it running on any computer on the university where I study and make it create a file on my web page).
I believe that's not necessary to create a dynamic cronjob.. just a static one is enough.. maybe if the script checks first locally to see if there is any new file , then it starts checking the mirrors, using a text file as input....
Well, I'll try to make something today or tomorrow and I'll post when I have a prototype working.
-- Pedro Macedo
