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