[Centos] Issues/thoughts re CentOS-4

["Petr \"Qaxi\" Klíma"]

> * Issue: yum
> Don't ever auto-modify yum.conf.  Too confusing.
> Invent a system for selecting/allocating a mirror.  Users should 
> always use a 3rd party mirror and not the main caosity mirrors.
> Issue: every mirror has different paths.  We need to clean up all the 
> symlinks and multi versions on the mirrors.  (We need someone in 
> change of the mirrors)
>
Why not to point "default" yum.conf to 3rd partymirrors

Something like below.

I let mirror.centos.org there because of statistics ... :-), but this
setup makes it 1/10th of all downloads ....
If you add more mirrors it will be less ...

(I forced failovermethod=roundrobin, but it is not necessary
<http://slovnik.seznam.cz/sl.fcgi?src_trg=en_cz&len=30&word=necessary%20steps> 

it is default)
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[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-hugemem kernel-enterprise
kernel-debug kernel-unsupported kernel-smp-unsupported
kernel-hugemem-unsupported
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
 
 


[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/
    http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/
    http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/
    ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/

http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/

ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/
    http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/

ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/

http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/
    ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
failovermethod=roundrobin
 
 


#released updates
[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
    http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
    http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
    http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
failovermethod=roundrobin
 
 


#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
    http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
    http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/

ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/

http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/

ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
    http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/

ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/

http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
    ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
failovermethod=roundrobin
 
 


#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
    http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
    http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/

ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/

http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/

ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
    http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/

ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/

http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
    ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
failovermethod=roundrobin
 
 


#packages in testing
#[testing]
#name=CentOS-$releasever - Testing
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#    http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#   http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#
ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#
http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#
ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#    http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#
ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#
ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#gpgcheck=1
#failovermethod=roundrobin

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