At 11:21 AM +0200 6/13/06, Ambrogio wrote: >Il giorno dom, 11/06/2006 alle 23.53 -0400, Tony Nelson ha scritto: >> Stablemirrors makes yum use its mirrors in ths same order each time, though >> different for each machine. This alone fixes most of the issues. >> Stablemirrors makes sure to check the date of a mirror before using it. >> The first mirror must be at least as up-to-date as the last time run; and >> any subsequent mirrors used on failures must be at the same date as the >> first mirror. This is done by downloading the tiny repomd.xml file, so >> little bandwidth is wasted. >I'm starting using it. > >I think is a good think manner. Thank you. >Another kind of sorting rules can be the speed of the mirror. There is already a plugin (fastestmirror) that attempts to do that, based on how quickly it can establish a connection. I think that is the wrong problem, as fast, incorrect mirrors are no better than slow, incorrect mirrors. >I don't know Python, so I can't help you but I will read source. ? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
