I would really like to see CentOS pickup something like fedora's mirroring system. I know CentOS is looking into it, just another vote for the new system :)
On 10/26/2009 10:55 AM, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote:
El Sáb 24 Octubre 2009, Ralph Angenendt escribió:
Am 24.10.09 10:16, schrieb Mogens Kjaer:
For the Fedora mirror site, I can log in to Fedora's mirror administration site and define a set of ranges of IP addresses.
When the mirrorlist server receives a request from one of these IP addresses it would return my local mirror as the first choice, unless my mirror has become too old.
Yes. We also know that our mirror system is a thing of, well, artisan beauty. We will be looking at other ways to manage our mirror system (make that: we will have to).
If people here want to help with that - I'm all for it. At the moment I have the Fedora system and SuSe's mirrorbrain on my reading/testing list.
I think this will need a new thread at some time.
FWIW, I read on Fedora's mirror list that there's a patch floating around to enable yum-plugin-fastestmirror do a more "advanced" check. It downloads repomd.xml and uses it to compare the download speed of every mirror.
Check comment #5 from this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484371
It's not optimal but it might be useful.
Regards,