14 Dec
2004
14 Dec
'04
10:27 p.m.
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 Mirrors come and go, mirrors stop rsyncing, but have outdated data.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.
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