On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, SpeedPartner GmbH wrote: > well, Fedora has been having the Mirror-Manager for quite some while now > where you can select which countries your mirror would want to serve and > also give your networks (lately: your AS-numbers) and would always be > ranked first in the mirror-lists. When I spoke with the Mirror-Manager developer at OLS a while back, I pointed out some possible security holes, and frankly had not followed it as the need to do so was unclear, and the interface for reporting was trac, rather than bugzilla, > I've tried to discuss that with CentOS-folks in the past, but they > seemed to prefer the current system which "just works" for them :-( > > Sorry to hear that, while we're wasting bandwidth :-( You are not helpless here, and it may well not be the right solution (from a CentOS risk management) to risk breaking update settings for a huge deployed base in a major release No-one is preventing you from running a local mirror, and dropping in local yum configs to point to them No-one is preventing you from having a cacheing proxy server There are so many hours in the day -- there is no constraint that you wait for Ralph or anyone else, before you block out an implementation and propose it for testing. If you have data needs in doing the setup, please ask here. -- Russ herrold