Jorge Fábregas said: > I thought that up2date decided which site to use > randomly (whether the main one or mirros) but once I started using the > yum-mirror directive...it is always using the mirrors. Is this normal? Yes. Up2date always picks a mirror. > If > so, why then have the main yum channel-name main-site-url line? Without looking at the code, I can think of: 1) In case the yum-mirror URL is having issues 2) So that rhn-applet still has a place to look without doing a fetch of the mirror list. -- William Hooper