> * Issue: yum > Don't ever auto-modify yum.conf. Too confusing. > Invent a system for selecting/allocating a mirror. Users should > always use a 3rd party mirror and not the main caosity mirrors. > Issue: every mirror has different paths. We need to clean up all the > symlinks and multi versions on the mirrors. (We need someone in > change of the mirrors) > Why not to point "default" yum.conf to 3rd partymirrors Something like below. I let mirror.centos.org there because of statistics ... :-), but this setup makes it 1/10th of all downloads .... If you add more mirrors it will be less ... (I forced failovermethod=roundrobin, but it is not necessary <http://slovnik.seznam.cz/sl.fcgi?src_trg=en_cz&len=30&word=necessary%20steps> it is default) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-hugemem kernel-enterprise kernel-debug kernel-unsupported kernel-smp-unsupported kernel-hugemem-unsupported tolerant=1 exactarch=1 [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 failovermethod=roundrobin #released updates [update] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 failovermethod=roundrobin #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 failovermethod=roundrobin #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 failovermethod=roundrobin #packages in testing #[testing] #name=CentOS-$releasever - Testing #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ # http://ftp.upce.cz/caos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ # http://caos.oregonstate.edu/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ # ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/caos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ # http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/caosity.org/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ # ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/mirror.caosity.org/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ # http://download.centos.ru/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ # ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ # http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ # ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/centos-3/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ #gpgcheck=1 #failovermethod=roundrobin ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++