D. D. Brierton said: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 20:49, William Hooper wrote: > >> D. D. Brierton said: >> >>> Excellent. So all I do is add rpm.livna.org to yum.conf and yum >>> automagically takes care of the rest? >> >> Umm, no. "point it to a text file of repos and it randomly picks one", >> just like up2date. For example: >> >> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2 >> > > I think we're talking past each other. What I was trying to ask was > whether when I upgrade to the next version of yum my current yum.conf will > suffice to use mirrors, No, because you won't be pointing to the text file of repos. > or whether I have to re-do my yum.conf all over > again in order to take advantage of this new functionality. Yes. > If the latter, > then that seems a shame as Given the alternative of breaking everyone's yum.conf I think it is the right move. > (a) lots of people won't alter their yum.conf > files and the problems will persist of people mailing the list asking why > yum is so slow; Only for people that are doing upgrades and have already edited their yum.conf. I would guess that most of the people complaining don't fall into either of those catagories. I for one don't want my yum.conf automagically edited, because I'm sure that the mirror on my LAN is faster than any mirror that Yum would pick. > (b) it just seems that this functionality could just be > part of yum's default behaviour. It is when using the new config files shipped with FC3. -- William Hooper
