On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 22:30 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 22:01 +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like yum on my fedora core 2 and 3 to query another repository > > if one is not avilable. > > What syntax (synopsys?) should I put into yum.conf to enable that? > > Alexander, as usual, was short, correct, and to-the-point. If an > example might help... > > # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo > [updates-released] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates > baseurl=http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ > failovermethod=priority > #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > > Without failovermethod the default ordering is roundrobin == random Another example, this time using a local mirrorlist, can be found at: http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/ The mirrorlist syntax only works in yum 2.1.x (as used in FC3) IIRC. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
