At 1:49 PM -0400 7/18/06, Sean wrote: >On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:42:13 -0400 >Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I've reported two such issues to "Fedora Infrastructure" "update system". >> One was accepted, the other was pushed onto "website". I haven't seen any >> activity on either bug in the past couple of months, so don't get your >> hopes up. > >Recent chatter on the devel-list(1) suggests that the next test release of >FC6 will include an update to yum which improves the mirror list >functionality. > >Instead of downloading a static mirror list, your IP address is used to >look up a country code. If a match is found, servers from your country >will be returned instead of the global mirror list. > >Either way, the list of servers returned will have been automatically checked >to ensure that they are up to date. The check isn't perfect (it only tests >the metadata on each server) but it should improve the situation a lot. Looks like a good approach. The metadata check really is good enough for narmal use, as the usual problem is stuck mirrors. Were you wanting them to do some sort of reverse rsync? >Cheers, >Sean > >(1) http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-July/msg00409.html ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
