[CentOS-mirror] Criteria for addition to http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os ?

Mon Apr 26 21:54:30 UTC 2010
^PNNL Public Software Mirror <mirror at pnl.gov>

Do you need more mirrors that also serve updates?

A review of our access logs indicated very few .rpm files being served.  A little more poking around showed that http://mirror.pnl.gov/centos shows up in http://mirror-status.centos.org/ and http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 but not (e.g.) http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os .  

Also, I confirmed that editing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to use (e.g.) 

   baseurl=http://mirror.pnl.gov/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ 

instead of

   mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os

...works well to point yum at our new mirror for updates.

Please accept my apologies for wasting everyone's time if I've missed a FAQ, HOWTO or some other documentation on how the system works!

Thank you,

Bill Nickless