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 > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20041116/653bc407/attachment-0005.html>