I thought about that about 20 secs after I sent the mail, thinking about partly retrieved updates & missing rpms,
so yes I agree....
P.
seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 13:52, Peter Farrow wrote:
You should re-write yum so that it searches for a different [random] mirror for each rpm it needs.
That way the load is spread.
I could run a mirror for you, I would be willing to donate 1/4 meg uncontended when my 2 meg feed goes in in december....
I don't have much bandwidth spare but I want to do my bit...
That would suck for the user, quite a lot.
The whole point of going until you find a reliable mirror is to make it better for the user.
the best way to offload the load is to organize the mirrors. Have the primary be mirrors-only and everyone else connect to a list of mirrors.
-sv