On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Mirror list selection is a server side infrastructure issue. Not > something yum needs to manage on its own. The mirror list cgi files that > were posted here are something FC6 has already implemented by default > now. So you already get what you want at this point. If the mirrorlist returned didn't go out of its way to defeat caching proxies there would be a lot less reason for the servers to be overloaded. > > And if yum had a counter part to "apt-get update" the network load would > > be less, which would make server overloads and DOS/QOS attacks less > > successful. > > yum update = apt-get update The operations are not the same. Apt-get update just updates the list available in the repository. And that step isn't repeated for every other operation like yum does (slowly, slowly, slowly...). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
