[CentOS] mirrorlist.centos.org port 81? (Yumconf changes)

donavan nelson donavan at 4wx.net
Thu Feb 16 19:12:43 UTC 2006


Lance Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Jim Smith wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just a quick note to see if anyone else noted the changes in yum in
>> the updates. I've disabled thhe new format until i can verify if it
>> works? As i rebuilt yumex from Scientific Linux (RHEL SRPM rebuild)
>> and i have not enabled centosplus i don't wanna mess my system. 
>>     
>
> I think you'll find that we wouldnt have released it unless it had been 
> tested ...
>
>   
>> I don't believe you can browse the new mirrors.
>>     
>
> Why not - they are the same old mirrors - all that happens is that yum 
> gets a lost of local up to date mirrors for the release/repo/arch from the 
>   
TYPO here:  This should say something like: 

...all that happens is that yum gets a list of a lot of local up to date mirrors...



> mirrorlist server on port 81 - chosen solely so that we can run it on the same server 
> as normal apache on port 80.
>
> If you have fastestmirror plugin enabld yum will then test the mirrors and 
> use the fastest local connection.
>
> The version of yumex that we have at dev.centos.org alsouses the same 
> mirrorlist system.
>
> Regards
> Lance
>
>   
Corrected at Lance's request.

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