On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 19:13 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > But, isn't there a way to add mirrors instead of changing the base url? > > You can use something like this: > > [livna] > name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > baseurl= > http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn > http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn > http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn > http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn > failovermethod=priority > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna > > With this "failovermethod=priority" yum will first try the server listed > at the top and skip to the next one if it can reach it (and so forth). > OK - thanks; I wasn't aware of that trick. One more question: The "mirrorlist=" spec apparently refers to a URL that has a list of URLs that are "baseurl's" - is that correct? If so, why doesn't livna publish a mirrorlist URL? Thanks, Jay
