From: donavan nelson donavan@4wx.net CC: centos@caosity.org Subject: Re: [Centos] Issues/thoughts re CentOS-4 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:27:28 -0600
Max Beerli wrote:
There is talk about a system like the ClamAV project which redirects you to the closest mirror to you automatically, there is 1 common domain and DNS handles the redirection. In which case everyone would have the same yum.conf file.
That sounds really complicated. How about a "mirror-select" script that's run when you run yum update for the first time?
This is really good idea!
This is a really BAD idea. Mirrors come and go, mirrors stop rsyncing, but have outdated data.
I'd rather have a centralized authority hand out a "best guess" mirror than have someone pick a mirror at setup and thing they are covered.
Then how about centralized server or system keeps statistics on all mirrors. Make sure mirrors is updated, available and amount of bandwidth available. How does sourceforge do this? When you go to download a file it changes links to most available or closest server. Then a mirror script on new Centos installation gets run on first yum update so it contacts statisitics server which tells it based on location and all other variables which mirror should be used. It outputs the mirror address to screen where user can add it to yum.conf
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