Lance Davis wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Jim Smith wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> Just a quick note to see if anyone else noted the changes in yum in >> the updates. I've disabled thhe new format until i can verify if it >> works? As i rebuilt yumex from Scientific Linux (RHEL SRPM rebuild) >> and i have not enabled centosplus i don't wanna mess my system. >> > > I think you'll find that we wouldnt have released it unless it had been > tested ... > > >> I don't believe you can browse the new mirrors. >> > > Why not - they are the same old mirrors - all that happens is that yum > gets a lost of local up to date mirrors for the release/repo/arch from the > TYPO here: This should say something like: ...all that happens is that yum gets a list of a lot of local up to date mirrors... > mirrorlist server on port 81 - chosen solely so that we can run it on the same server > as normal apache on port 80. > > If you have fastestmirror plugin enabld yum will then test the mirrors and > use the fastest local connection. > > The version of yumex that we have at dev.centos.org alsouses the same > mirrorlist system. > > Regards > Lance > > Corrected at Lance's request. .dn