Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Incidentally, can one have more than one repository "hard-coded".
Yep. From yum.conf(1):
baseurl
Must be a URL to the directory where the yum repository’s
‘repodata’ directory lives. Can be an http://, ftp:// or file://
URL. You can specify multiple URLs in one baseurl statement. The
best way to do this is like this:
[repositoryid]
name=Some name for this repository
baseurl=url://server1/path/to/repository/
url://server2/path/to/repository/
url://server3/path/to/repository/
If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository you
will find yum will ignore the earlier ones and probably act
bizarrely. Don’t do this, you’ve been warned.
> Or does it just try the first, and bomb out if that doesn't work?
Nope. You can specify the order in which it tries the various urls
with the failovermethod setting.
> Can one have a repository and a mirror-list?
The man page says yes. I can't remember if I've ever tried this. I
used to just drop the mirrorlist and replace it with a baseurl of a
local or other fast mirror near me, but I've let the mirrorlist
setting in my F7 box and it's worked well for me so far.
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